Prof. Xintao Wu’s group in Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter has made a nice breakthrough in the exploration of novel amino acid/rare earth/transition metal compounds. Compared with the biggest known icosanuclear clusters, the highly aggregated nanosized 30-, 32- and 61-nuclear clusters are unique, and the 30-nuclear cluster can also serve as a building unit to generate a series of new 1D, 2D and 3D polymers. All these compounds exhibit interesting magnetic and semi-conductive properties. A series of trigonal-prismatic {LnNi6} glycin clusters have been rationally synthesized via the appropriate ligand exchange interactions. A new fan-shaped octadecanuclear Gd6Cu12 amino acid cluster features a unique inner core of [Gd6(OH)8] that is the first example of ferromagnetic rare earth cluster. An empirical formula has thus been suggested on the relationship of the magnetic properties and the spin behavior, which may shed a useful insight on the design and synthesis of the ferromagnetic rare-earth clusters. Some of the results have been published on J.Am.Chem.Soc.　 2007,129,15144-15146.