[Translational medicine is advocated on the ophthalmic research in China].

In recent years, a lot of achievements on the basic research of ocular disease have been made in our country, however, among these basic research works, few were finally become a agent or device to be applied in the clinic. The concept of "translational medicine", i.e. "from bench to bedside" research should be strongly advocated to catalyze the medical applications of basic research on ocular disease. For doing better this way, we suggest to do more research work of originality, to persevere the a meaningful research work and to cooperate well with biomedical enterprise. Meanwhile, we emphasize the importance of the reverse translational way, i.e., "from bedside to bench" not only because of the limited resources including financial resources and research facility, but also for improving the efficiency of the basic research of ocular diseases in China.