From March 27 to 31, 2024, the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL 2024) was held in Kyoto, Japan. As a top international conference, this year's APASL annual meeting brings together a large number of the latest research progress. After the feast, the heat did not abate. In the multi-day academic feast, what important research, cutting-edge views have been released, and what novel news events have occurred, let us listen to Dr. Jimmy Che-To LAI of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, and once again feel the pulse of Asia in the field of liver disease.