Aal izz well, old chaps!

Two years have passed since the peaceful and humble birth of Journal of Thoracic Disease (JTD) in the winter of 2009. Over these days, JTD has wound across and survived a tough time in administrative encouragement, financial support, and personnel shortage. What on earth were these exogenous distresses? They only remind us of a highly popular cyberphrase among the Chinese–all predicaments are of no consequence just like floating clouds (Shenma doushi fuyun). To be or not to be? That should be a question subject to the test of times, the needs of peers as a whole, but not to transient difficulties, nor to the individual wills of a few. No pains, no gains. It always takes long to endure the seemingly endless hardship and solitude before something cheerful comes in.