Minimally invasive represents a new trend in mod surgery. Laparoscopic surgeries bring many advantages including smaller local trauma, milder systemic reactions, and faster postoperative recovery. The laparoscopic techniques have been increasingly used for the treatment of liver diseases. In December 2012, the Chinese Society of Hepatic Surgery issued the Expert Consensus on Laparoscopic Liver Resection and Guidelines on Surgical Procedures (2013 Edition), in which the laparoscopic liver resection is divided into anatomic resection and non-anatomic resection. According to the expert consensus, lesions located in segments II, III, IVb, V, and VI as well as lesions that are near the surface of liver (segments VII, VIII, and IVa) and have not invaded the major hepatic veins should be treated with laparoscopic non-anatomic resection. In contrast, the anatomic resection includes left lateral liver resection, left liver resection, resection of right posterior hepatic lobe, and right liver resection. However, the laparoscopic techniques for hepatic caudate lobe resection, left lobectomy, right lobectomy, middle lobectomy (for segments IV, V, and VIII), and liver graft procurement still have many limitations and cannot be widely applied.