The National Center for Nanoscience and Technology(NCNST) of China is co-founded by Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Ministry of Education . It is a subsidiary non-profit organization of CAS which enjoys full financial allocations with a status of independent non-profit legal entity. It will have 155 formal employees. The center was officially founded on December 31, 2003, with CAS, Peking University and Tsinghua University as its initiators and co-founders. The NCNST adopts a system that its director takes full responsibilities under leadership of a governing board. Its first director is Bai Chunli, an academian of CAS. The center established an academic committee which aids the governing board to determine important research areas and moving directions of NCNST.　 In NCNST, basic and applied researches in nanoscience have been positioned as the main research directions. Its objective is to build a public technological platform and research base for nanoscience, which is featured with state- of- the- art equipments and is open to both domestic and international users.The NCNST mainly consists of following branches, laboratory for nanodevice, laboratory for nanomaterials, laboratory for biological effects of nanomaterials and nanosafety, laboratory for nanocharacterization, laboratory for nanostandardization, laboratory for nanomanufacture and applications, testing laboratory for nanostructures, nanofabrication laboratory, coordination laboratories, a website and some databases for nanoscience.