With the aging population also increased the incidence of cataract, cataract has become the most common cause of blindness in the developing countries, the blind and vision damage has become a serious public, social and economic problem in developing countries. Although cataract surgery is the most cost-effective intervention, but to provide cataract surgical services in developing countries, there are still a lot of problems and challenges, manual small incision cataract surgery in the treatment of cataract in the past 10 years in some countrie shave achieved good results. In addition, the development of the different mode of the sustainable development of the prevention of blindness in these developing countries is also a challenge. We did a review of cataract surgery in developing countries in recent years.