Laparoscopic surgery, or minimally invasive surgery, has been widely accepted by patients due to less trauma, faster recovery and smaller scars. However, in the field of pancreatic surgery, the development has been slower due to the complexity and difficulty of pancreatic surgery, especially laparoscopic pancreatic surgery requires superior reconstruction and suturing skills, as well as extensive experience in open pancreatic surgery, so there are fewer units that can perform minimally invasive pancreatic surgery at home and abroad. I went to Mayo Clinic Surgery in the United States for 3 months in 2013, where laparoscopic pancreatic surgery has become routine, and its director, Professor Micheal Kendrick, is considered the first person in the world in laparoscopic pancreatic surgery, completing 2-3 laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomies per operating day, even for patients with pancreatic cancer with vascular invasion However, Professor Kendrick’s ability to perform laparoscopic combined vascular resection and reconstruction with ease and skill is astonishing. What is particularly impressive is that once I followed Prof. Kendrick in his morning checkup, a patient who had undergone laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy yesterday was sitting on the bed, eating breakfast, and greeted us warmly when he saw us. Contrast this with domestic open pancreatic surgery patients, who often need 3 days to get out of bed and 3 days to drink due to the huge surgical trauma and incision pain, the difference is huge. In the following 3 months I deeply felt the benefits of minimally invasive pancreatic surgery to patients, most of them could get out of bed and eat on the first day after surgery, and could be discharged in 5-7 days. Not only is it less traumatic and faster recovery, compared with open surgery, minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery also has the advantages of enlarged field of view and fine operation. Vessels that are not visible in open surgery appear clear in the enlarged field of view of the laparoscope, and can be titanium-clamped to stop bleeding; the enlarged field of view makes the surgical operation correspondingly more delicate; the field of view of the laparoscope can also be flexibly changed, and it can penetrate deep into the abdominal cavity and observe the roots of the vessels, which Kendrick published an article in 2014 in Annual of Surgery, an authoritative journal of surgery, that the prognosis of patients after laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy is better than that of open surgery, which overturned the view of the surgical community about laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy. After I returned to China, with the support of Professor Miao Yi, the leader of the Pancreatic Center and vice chairman of the National Pancreatic Group, I successfully carried out various minimally invasive pancreatic surgeries such as total laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy, total pancreatectomy, mid-pancreatic resection, pancreatic body tail resection, and internal drainage of pancreatic pseudocysts. I also felt great satisfaction when I saw that patients benefited from minimally invasive surgeries and recovered quickly. Nowadays, many units in China also carry out laparoscopic pancreatic surgery, and I deeply feel that the era of minimally invasive-laparoscopic pancreatic surgery has arrived. For the most complicated pancreaticoduodenectomy in laparoscopic pancreatic surgery, some of my experiences were published in the Chinese Journal of General Surgery (electronic version).