LEAF or the Low Energy heavy ion Accelerator Facility is a multidiscipline heavy ion research platform under construction at IMP.It is a 5 year National Major Instruments Research Program supported by National Science Foundation of China(NSFC)started in 2015.Oriented to the frontier research in Material Sciences,Astrophysics,Atomic Physics and Highly Charged Ion Physics,LEAF has been designed and constructed with the state of the art technologies for low energy heavy ion acceleration.This facility features a 45 GHz ECR ion source FECR,a heavy ion CW 4-vane radio frequency quadruple accelerator LRFQ,300 kV HV platform,LEBT,MEBT and several dedicated experimental terminals.