In recent years, fast track surgery (FTS) as a frontier concept has been increasingly used in patients with gastrointestinal surgery. Because most indexes of gastrointestinal FTS are established on the basis of postoperative gastrointestinal tract function recovery, or are characterized by accelerating postoperative recovery of gastrointestinal tract function, so the authors reviewed the progress in clinical application of FTS for acceleration of gastrointestinal function recovery during perioperative management of gastrointestinal surgery.