Proposed by Prof. Ganchang Wang in 1964 and officially started in 1976 the ICF Program at CAEP includes research on every aspect of ICF science and technology: high power and energy laser technology, target fabrication, diagnostics, target physics, and potential applications. Two solid‐state lasers have been operated since the middle of the last decade. The most of research on target physics has been focused on indirect‐drive approach, covering laser‐plasma coupling, parametric instabilities and suprathermal electrons, x‐ray conversion and transport, plasma energetics, ablation, hydrodynamic instabilities. Neutron production experiments were conducted successfully on the Shenguang facility (2×800 J, 1 ns, and 1.053 &mgr;m) with radiation‐driven targets in 1990. In addition, equation of state experiments have been performed using both laser‐ and x‐ray‐driven targets for Fe, Cu, and glass. Furthermore, a much bigger laser facility is now being considered. ©1996 American Institute of Physics.