During the 24th Annual Meeting of Asian Society for Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (ASCVTS) in conjunction with 9thAATS/ASCVTS Postgraduate Course held in Taipei, Taiwan in 2016, Prof. Ng has presented an important presentation on the topic “Is there a role for the uniportal approach”, and Prof. Zhang gave an excellent lecture on “Localization of peripheral pulmonary lesions to aid surgical resection: a novel approach of electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopic dye marking”.