On October 30, 2014, our general surgery department successfully performed the first case of “hybrid surgery – combined open surgery and laparoscopic surgery to repair giant abdominal wall incisional hernia” on a patient with a giant incisional hernia, which marked that our general surgery group of hernia and abdominal wall surgery is in the leading position in treating giant abdominal wall hernia in China. The patient was a 74-year-old female, who was treated with a large abdominal hernia. The patient was a 74-year-old woman who had a huge incisional hernia one year after her incisional infection following a “gastric mesenchymal tumor resection” in a foreign hospital three years ago. The abdominal CT indicated that the abdominal wall defect was about 25*375 px in diameter and a huge incisional hernia in the abdominal wall. On October 30, Prof. Zhang Guangyong and Dr. Wang Qun, Chief Physician of General Surgery Department, performed a combined open surgery and laparoscopic surgery to repair the huge abdominal wall incisional hernia under general anesthesia with full cooperation from the central hospital. The operation went very smoothly and took only 3 hours. The patient recovered well after surgery and was discharged from the hospital. Dr. Wang Qun, chief physician of the general surgery hernia and abdominal wall surgery group of our hospital, introduced that hybridization technique refers to the orderly and planned combination of lumpectomy techniques and conventional surgical techniques to take advantage of each other to improve the efficiency of surgery and the safety and effectiveness of treatment. The concept of using hybridization for repairing large incisional hernias in the abdominal wall did not arise out of nowhere, but was gradually established after various challenges, setbacks and even failures in clinical practice. On the one hand, it can widely and safely separate the intra-abdominal adhesions and return the hernia contents under direct vision, which reduces the chance of intestinal injury and makes the operation safer; on the other hand, laparoscopic exploration of the abdominal wall can reveal hidden defects, and the patch can be placed and fixed under direct vision of the laparoscope, so that it can be easily and accurately placed and fully spread. The “hybridization repair technique” developed in our hospital combines the respective advantages of open surgery and laparoscopic surgery, while avoiding the corresponding disadvantages and achieving a good combination of the two. The hybridization technique is suitable for (1) postoperative recurrence of incisional hernia requiring reoperation; (2) cases with dense intra-abdominal adhesions due to infection of the original incision or abdominal wall inflammation and intraoperative damage to the intestinal canal; (3) cases with huge incisional hernia or hernia covered by skin only, requiring abdominal wall reconstruction; (4) cases with embedded hernia contents, which may require intestinal canal resection and digestive tract reconstruction. Under the leadership of Director Wang Qun, our general surgery hernia and abdominal wall surgery group has completed nearly 100 open hernia repairs in less than a year since its opening. For hernia patients with poor cardiopulmonary, hepatic and renal functions, local anesthesia hernia surgery was carried out earlier, and laparoscopic hernia repair was carried out with the help of the central hospital area, all of which achieved satisfactory results and were widely praised by patients’ families. ”We will pay attention to and try our best to cure every hernia operation, improve the quality of life of patients and avoid “hernia causing trouble”.