Ms. Wang’s father underwent open cholecystectomy at Tong Ren Hospital 20 years ago due to gallbladder stones. Last year, Ms. Wang herself also suffered from cholecystitis and gallbladder stones. The pain was frequent after eating and at night, which seriously affected work and rest. Ms. Wang was hospitalized for surgical treatment with transumbilical single-hole laparoscopic cholecystectomy, and the operation lasted 40 minutes. The patient got out of bed the same day after the operation and hardly felt any pain and asked to be discharged the day after the operation. Ms. Wang’s father was very surprised to see only a small incision on his daughter’s belly at the navel, and when he saw the 20 cm incision scar on his own belly, he couldn’t help but say, “Thank you for the progress of medical technology. Today, it has been 1 month since Ms. Wang’s surgery, and the belly button wound was no longer visible at the time of the review. During the outpatient review, Ms. Wang, who loves beauty, said: I often show off my wound to my colleagues and friends. With advances in medical technology, open cholecystectomy has been replaced by minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery. Since the world’s first laparoscopic cholecystectomy was performed in 1987, the advantages of this procedure have been widely recognized clinically, and laparoscopic cholecystectomy has been the gold standard for the treatment of benign gallbladder diseases. 1991 saw the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy in China, and the hepatobiliary specialty of Tong Ren Hospital performed this procedure earlier in China. At present, more than 99% of our cholecystectomies are done laparoscopically and we have accumulated rich experience. Traditional laparoscopic cholecystectomy uses a four-hole or three-hole method, which gradually decreases the trauma but still leaves a hole scar in the abdomen. The transumbilical single-hole laparoscopic technique is a single-hole procedure instead of the traditional four-hole or three-hole laparoscopic procedure, which can perform gallbladder removal surgery using only the body’s “natural channel”, the belly button. In early 2009, we carried out single-port laparoscopic cholecystectomy in Beijing, which not only has small incision, light pain and no obvious scars, but also has been well received by patients and their families. Single-port laparoscopic cholecystectomy has outstanding features of minimally invasive, safety, economy, aesthetics, and less postoperative pain, and the treatment cost does not increase compared with traditional laparoscopic surgery.