The 6th International Symposium on Laser, Scintillator and Nonlinear Optical Materials (ISLNOM-6), which was sponsored by Chinese Ceramic Society and organized by Shanghai Institute of Ceramics Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai Ceramic Society, was held from Oct. 21st to 23rd of 2013 in Shanghai. ISLNOM is held every 3 years and this session of ISLNOM is first time held in China. More than 150 representatives from China, United States, Japan, Franc and Italy attended this symposium. Almost 50 participants were foreign representatives. A total of 116 abstracts of academic papers were received by ISLNOM-6 and they focused on preparation of laser, scintillator and nonlinear optical materials. There were 4 companies showing themselves and excellent papers by young authors were appraised and selected by the symposium.