The Department of Thoracic Surgery has 28 beds, 7 observation rooms, 7 medical staffs, including 1 chief physician, 4 deputy chief physicians, 2 senior attending physicians, 4 master's degree graduates among the medical staffs, and 17 nursing staffs, including 1 deputy chief nurse practitioner, 11 chief nurse practitioners, 3 nurse practitioners, and 2 nurses. Director Cheng Siqiang and Deputy Director Rong Lin are the standing members of Thoracic Surgery Branch of Shandong Medical Association and Thoracic Surgery Branch of Shandong Physicians' Association, Deputy Director Rong Lin is the deputy director of Thoracic Surgery Branch of Liaocheng City Medical Association, and the rest of the physicians have various part-time jobs.

   The common diseases currently treated in the department include benign and malignant tumours of the oesophagus (oesophageal cancer, oesophageal smooth muscle tumour, etc.), oesophagogastric junction tumour (cardia cancer), benign and malignant tumours of the lungs and the trachea (lung cancer, lung misshapen tumour, sclerosing hemangioma of the lungs, tracheal tumour, etc.), and diseases of the mediastinum and the pleura (thymoma, oesophageal cysts, tracheal cysts, tumour of the mediastinum, mesothelioma of the pleura, spontaneous pneumothorax, pulmonary blastema, etc.), Benign oesophageal diseases (oesophageal diverticulum, oesophageal hiatal hernia, pancreatic achalasia, reflux oesophagitis, spontaneous oesophageal rupture, etc.), thoracic traumatic injuries (rib fracture, sternal fracture, lung contusion, etc.), and diseases of the chest wall (funnel chest, chicken chest, chest wall tuberculosis, benign and malignant tumours of the chest wall, and sweaty hands), and in recent years, surgeries have been performed mainly with lumbo-laparoscopic and minimally invasive, and apart from the conventional open surgeries as a basis, minimally invasive surgeries can be performed independently at present. At present, the department can independently perform minimally invasive surgeries, such as thoracolaparoscopic combined oesophageal cancer radical surgery, laparoscopic oesophageal hiatal hernia repair, thoracoscopic lobectomy, thoracoscopic segmental resection, thoracoscopic wedge resection of lungs, thoracoscopic mediastinal tumour resection, thoracoscopic funnel chest correction, etc. The department has been in contact with the higher hospitals and has been working closely with the doctors of the Department of Medicine. The department is in close contact with the higher hospitals, and has set up Chen Haiquan's workshop in cooperation with the Cancer Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, which comes to the hospital from time to time for consultation, surgery and lectures, etc. The department is well equipped with medical equipments.

    The department has complete medical equipments, including ventilator, multifunctional monitor, micro pump and other equipments, which are among the highest in the whole hospital. At present, there are 3 sets of ventilators (2 sets of Hamilton C2, 1 set of Newborn e360), 8 sets of multifunctional electrocardiographic monitors (1 set of iMEC12, 2 sets of IPM12, 4 sets of T8, 1 set of C3), 2 sets of antithrombotic pumps (South Korea Wonjin), 1 set of defibrillation monitors (M4735A), 1 set of fibreoptic bronchoscopy as well as more than 10 sets of syringe pumps and feeding pumps in normal operation.