XIAOHONG ZHOU ON BEHALF OF THE HIAF PROJECT TEAM ABSTRACT As one of the Major National Science and Technology Infrastructure Facilities in China, the High Intensity Heavy-ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) is now under construction and is scheduled to be commissioned in 2025. HIAF is composed of a superconducting Linac, a booster ring, a high-energy radioactive beam line, an experimental storage ring, and a few experiment setups. The major goals of HIAF are to explore the hithe