Though affected by the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020, the Chinese Journal ofNeurology successfully overcame the difficulties and successfully completed the annual editing and publishing work. In 2020, editorial board meetings were held monthly to decide whether or not to publish a manuscript, 12 theme issues were published, nine guidelines and consensuses by the Chinese Society of Neurology were published, 10 continuing medical education articles by famous experts were published, and several COVID-19 related articles were quickly published. In 2021, efforts will be made to make the journal to a higher level.

In 2018,the Chinese Journal of Neurology continued to make efforts to improve the quality,display and influence of papers published,by persisting in holding editorial board meeting monthly to make the final decision on whether or not to publish a manuscript,ameliorating the website and WeChat services,etc.The impact factor of the journal in 2017 is 2.755,coming out in front among more than 140 journals published by the Chinese Medical Association.In the coming new year,the Chinese Journal of Neurology will make persistent efforts,trying to be included in more international databases,such as Medline and so on.

For the Chinese Journal of Neurology, it is faced with an opportunity for the state encouraging Chinese authors to publish their papers in domestic journals, but it is also faced with the challenges of Science Citation Index journals competing for manuscript sources and changing of readers′ reading habits as well as the competition of domestic similar medical journals. With the establishment of the Seventh Editorial Board of Chinese Journal of Neurology, the Journal will mainly take the following measures to recreate brilliance in the next four years: attracting more high-quality original articles by strengthening solicitation of manuscripts and shortening publishing delay, improving the quality of editorials and review articles, enriching the content and columns of the Journal, publishing more high-level guidelines and consensuses, being more open and inclusive, improving digital construction, enhancing academic service capacity, taking into account both domestic and international orientation.

The First Meeting of the Seventh Editorial Committee of Chinese Journal of Neurology was held in Zhuhai, Guangdong,China on September 23, 2021. At the meeting, the list of the Seventh Editorial Board and the list of consultants were announced, the work of the magazine in the past 4 years was summarized, and the future work of the editorial board was planned and discussed. Bao Yalin, editor of the Journal Management Department of Chinese Medical Association, Liu Bing, vice president of the Chinese Medical Journals Publishing House Co., Ltd, Professor Pu Chuanqiang, editor-in-chief of the Seventh Editorial Board of Chinese Journal of Neurology, and Professor Cui Liying, honorary editor-in-chief of the Seventh Editorial Board of Chinese Journal of Neurology, attended the meeting. Totally about 100 editorial board members attended the meeting offline or online. All staff of the Editorial Department of Chinese Journal of Neurology also attended the meeting. The meeting came to a successful conclusion.

In the coming new year, more innovative researches are encouraged to be published in the journal. We hope researchers pay more attention to ethic issues and conflicts of interest statement, details on case ascertainment and control selection method (such as diagnosis, inclusion and exclusion criteria). We also hope to publish more systematic reviews in the journal.