Chinese surgery journals are of small international im-pact which does not measure up to the state of develop-ment of surgery in China and they can not adequately pub-lish Chinese researches to the world. To improve the visibil-ity of Chinese surgery journals, this article suggests devel-oping more English surgery journals, extending a co-opera-tion with famous publishers, employing overseas experts as editorial committee and making more use of the lnternet.