Abstract:The content of aluminum element in Chinese tea was normally measured by ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometry in accordance with the national standard.However，this method has shown various disadvantages including complicated pretreatment procedure and immediately measurement.In this study，we utilized plasma emission spectrometry（ICP-AES）to measure the content of aluminum element.Preliminary results indicated that ICP-AES method was effective and less complicated.The results from ICP-AES and ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometry were similar which demonstrated that the current ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometry method can be replaced by ICP-AES in the measurement of content of aluminum element in Chinese tea.