Superficial gastritis is not a precancerous lesion and will not become gastric cancer, even if it lasts long enough. However, superficial gastritis does not mean that the disease will never progress. If a person is often exposed to the triggering factors of gastric cancer, such as long-term consumption of high-salt, smoked and pickled foods, smoking, alcoholism, staying up late, stressful life, irregular life, etc., accompanied by H. pylori Hp infection in the stomach, it will stimulate abnormal atypical hyperplasia of gastric mucosa and intestinal epithelial hyperplasia, which will gradually develop into gastric cancer after one year. After the above stimulation, the patient’s gastric mucosa will also form precancerous lesions such as gastric polyps, atrophic gastritis and gastric ulcer, which may develop into gastric cancer after one year if not treated in time. In conclusion, superficial gastritis is not directly related to the development of gastric cancer, but if the patient has triggering factors, it will stimulate the gastric mucosa to change and no longer stay at the level of superficial gastritis.