Abstract: Minimally invasive technology has entered China for 30 years. With the rapid development of minimally invasive surgery, the laparoscopic vision system has gone from standard definition to high definition, then to ultra high definition, from two-dimensional vision to three-dimensional vision, then to fluorescent visualization navigation. Laparoscopic surgery has ranged from the removal or functional repair of benign diseased organs to the radical treatment of malig-nant tumors, then to more functional protection on the basis of radical treatment. The application scope of laparoscopic surgery has also been popularized in various specialized fields of digestive surgery. The author reviews the development of minimally invasive technology in the past 30 years, sums up the experiences, and looks forward to the future, in order to pay tribute to the 20 years of working together with the Chinese Journal of Digestive Surgery.