Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) is an optimizing scheme in peroperative period, which aimed to reduce postoperative complications and pain, and shorten the time of hospitalization through a series of optimizing measures of evidence-based medicine in preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative period. ERAS contains the application of minimal-invasive surgery, multiple clinical technologies and multidisciplinary collaboration. ERAS has now been extended to all departments of surgery, and there is a significant health economic value in ERAS. This current study will summarize the application status and prospective of ERAS in lung cancer diagnosis and treatment. The concept of ERAS and summary of its development; the application of ERAS in lung cancer diagnosis and treatment; the introduction of multiple-procedure system of ERAS in department of thoracic surgery in the First affiliated hospital of Zhejiang University; summary and prospectives of ERAS in lung cancer diagnosis and treatment.