The Chinese Journal of Food Hygiene was founded in 1989 by DAI Yin, former director of Institute of Food Hygiene Supervision and Inspection, the Ministry of Health. It is currently under the supervision of the National Health Commission. Chinese Journal of Food Hygiene is an academic journal jointly sponsored by the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association and the Chinese Medical Information and big data Association. With the dedication of four editors-in-chief (DAI Yin, LI Xiaofang, HE Laiying and WU Yongning), the chairman of the editorial board (CHEN Chunming, WANG Maoqi, YAN Weixing and LU Jiang) and the editors, the Chinese Journal of Food Hygiene has become an authoritative academic journal in the field of food hygiene in China. It is a Chinese core journal, a science and technology core journal of China, an outstanding science and technology journal of China, and a core database journal of China Science Citation Database. Its impact factor ranks in the top six in the field of preventive medicine for many years. It has been rated as the excellent journal of Chinese Preventive Medicine Association for many times. Since the journal was founded, more than 5 100 papers have been published. The journal has played a positive role in exchanging work experience, displaying scientific research results, publishing progress at home and abroad, promoting mutual cooperation and achieving the goal of healthy China.