Abstract: All histological slides were reviewed and a comparative analysis was performed on 1289 cases of malignant lymphomas reported from 250000 cases biopsies during the 38 years period from 1955 through 1993 in the files of the Department of Pathology,Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing.Five distinctions were found in these Chinese cases of lymphomas: (1) high rate of male:female(2. 8:1);(2) only one peak of the incidence(20-30 years old);(3) high rate of the extranodal lymphomas (53.7);(4) no increasing incidence by year;(5) low rate of Hodgkin's disease(4.6%).The distinctive difference of malignant lymphomas between China and Western suggest the possibility for the next research.