Thanks to the 4th Annual East Meets West—A Medical and Surgical Symposium, we got the opportunity to meet Prof. Fingerhut. He told us that he was also pleased to have the chance to learn how the surgeons from China deal with the hot topics of today, such as complete mesocolic excision, the SPADE operation for gastric carcinoma, how the surgeons are dealing with transanal surgery in as an example transanal total mesorectal excision (taTME). He was excited to come China and communicate with Chinese medical professionals.