From January 10 to 11, 2025, the finals of the 1st "China Interventionalist Surgery Competition (thyroid) in conjunction with the Working Meeting of the Expert Group of Thyroid Disease of the Professional Committee of Interventional Medicine" hosted by National Health Commission Capacity Building and Continuing Education Center were held in Beijing. Excellent thyroid interventional physicians from seven regions in China gathered together to participate in the finals.
Ruan Litao, Director of Department of Ultrasound Medicine of the First Affiliated Hospital (FAH) of Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), was invited as an expert judge to attend this meeting. He was awarded as one of the top 10 "Outstanding Contribution Lecturers 2024", and received the honorary certificate of "Outstanding Contribution to Precision Capability Improvement Project for Minimally Invasive Intervention in County-level Medical Institutions of National Health Commission 2024".


In 2022, Department of Ultrasound Medicine of FAH was approved as one of the 9 first-batch "Thyroid Ablation Technology Training Base" by National Health Commission Capacity Building and Continuing Education Center, the first base in northwest China. Director Ruan Litao served as member of "Thyroid Disease Expert Group". In recent years, the department is committed to promoting widespread application of minimally invasive thyroid intervention technology in northwest China, especially at the county-level hospitals, and has hosted 6 sessions of "Thyroid FNA Training Courses" and 1 session of "Standardized Training Course for Thyroid Ablation Technology", which have had wide impact in China and contributed to improving the precision of minimally invasive thyroid intervention in county-level medical institutions.

Director Ruan Litao delivered an intriguing lecture entitled "Ultrasound Diagnostic Criteria and Technical Highlights of Cervical Lymph Nodes" at the "Standardized Training Course of Special Capability of Thyroid Ablation Technology" in this meeting.
