According to user requirements, the Hefei Light Source currently has 10 beamlines and experimental stations. These include 5 insertion device beamlines—namely, the Combustion, Soft X-ray Imaging, Catalysis and Surface Science, Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy (ARPES), and Atomic and Molecular Physics beamlines and stations.

Additionally, there are 5 bending magnet beamlines, which include Infrared Spectroscopy and Microscopic Imaging, Mass Spectrometry, Metrology, Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Soft X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism, and Soft X-ray In-situ Spectroscopy beamlines and stations.

The overall layout of the beamlines is as follows: