Five thousands five hundreds and eighty two patients with cholelithasis in 46 hospitals were collected through questionnaire and analysed, of which 2 735 cases were gallstones (accounted for 48.99%),and 2 847 cases were intraand extrahepatobiliary tract stones (accounted for 51.00%). In the gallstone group, there were 487 cases (8.72%) complicated with choledocholithasis, 54 cases (1.97%) complicated with acute cholecystitis, 189 cases (6.91%) with acute cholangitis, and 215 cases (7.86%) with obstructive jaundice. In 2 847 cases with intra and extrahepatobiliary tract stones, 1 284 cases were found to be extrahepatic duct stones (23.00%), 668 cases were left intrahepatic duct stones (1.97%), 384 cases were right intrahepatic duct stones (6.88%), and 511 cases stone in both sides (9.15%); complications in this group were acute severe cholangitis 683 cases (23.99%), acute cholangitis 1 169 cases (41.06%), obstructive jaundice 431 cases (15.14%), and biliary cirrbosis 278 cases (9.76%). The operative procedure for patients with gallstones were cholecystectomy (2 697 cases), chelangioduodenostomy or cholangiojejunostomy (36 cases), and Oddi’s sphincteroplasty (7 cases); and for patients with intraand extrahepatobiliary tract stones were choledocholithotomy and T tubule drainage (2 275 cases), differecnt forms of choledochoenterostomy (534 cases), and Oddi’s sphincteroplasty (38 cases). The postoperative complicatioin rate in patients with gallstones was 1.13%, with intraand extrahepatobiiary tract stones was 14.47%, mortality of the latter was 1.62%. The authors consider that cholecystectomy should be performed in elderly patients (over 50 years) with or without symptoms, and proper choice of operative procedure for hepatobiliary tract stones is important.