Specially invited expert: Zhou Rui (Senior engineer, Xiamen University) Since the advent of the laser in 1960, new manufacturing technology using laser as an energy source and tool has begun to take the stage of history and led the manufacturing technology into a new era of laser manufacturing. The early laser manufacturing technology mainly depends on the the thermal effects of the laser, which inevitably leads to the rough surface and lack of accuracy. In this occasion, the practical applications have been severely limited. processing and applied to the micro / nano material precision machining. Laser micro / nano processing is mainly dependent on the interaction between laser and matter, changing the state and nature of matter to achieve micron and nano-scale or cross-scale control. The extremely extended effects of energy fluence, the space and time scale of the laser micro / nano processing, the controllable scale of the absorb ed energy of the manufacturing body respectively, it could result in the totally different physical effect and mechanism of action utilized by the manufacturing process from the traditional manufacturing.In recent years, our nation has shown significant progress on laser microprocessing & nanofabrication, as well as their applications in fabricating micro/nano-devices. Laser processing has become an outstanding processing technology in advanced manufacturing. In order to exhibit the latest progress for further academic communication and promotion of the developments of relative fields, OEE published a special issue “Laser Microprocessing & Nanofabrication”.