Li jingwei() reviewed his 60 years of medical history research. In 1955, he was transferred to the class of the study of Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) by western medicine doctor, and start the research of medical history. He stayed in the medical history departement as a researcher, and formally worship Chen Bangxian() as his tutor. He inherited and developed Chen Bangxian's scholarship; presided over the compilation of major projects such as "the general history of Chinese medicine" and "the dictionary of traditional Chinese medicine" , He contributed to the establishment of China Institute for History of Medicine and Medical Literature, the resumption of Chinese Society of Medical History(one of Chinese Medical Association's specialty societies), reissue of Chinese journal of medical history, the establishment of the Chinese medical history museum, training of medical history literature personnel, the regularization of academic discipline. He also did works for the writing plan of the ancient Chinese surgical civilization《》, and publishing process of the English version of the general history of Chinese medicine《》, and the publishing process of the Picture album of Chinese medical and health《》.