A new storage ring system, HIRFL-CSR, is now in construction in the Nationa
l Laboratory of Heavy Ion Research Facility of Lanzhou, China. The new faci
lity consists of a main ring (CSRm) and an experimental ring (CSRe). With t
he flexibility of the production and the investigation of highly charged io
ns and radioactive ion beams the new HIRFL-CSR facility will make many fron
tier atomic physics researches possible in near future. The future physics
researches at the HIRFL-CSR are now under consideration. In this paper an o
verview of the HIRFL-CSR project is given, and the main atomic physics prog
rams to be carried at the HIRFL-CSR are presented.