Steel with nitrogen content of more than 0.4wt % is known as high-nitrogen steel, which is a new material with excellent performance and broad application prospects, among which high-nitrogen chromium-manganese austenitic steel (such as 18Mn18Cr0.5N steel) is currently one of the materials with the best match of strength and toughness in all metal materials in the world. During the "Seventh Five-Year Plan" period, 18Mn18Cr0.5N steel was introduced to manufacture components such as generator rotor protection rings. However, in the actual production of the protective ring, this kind of steel in the high-temperature deformation (such as forging, hot bending, etc.) and the cooling process after deformation, if the carbide or nitride are precipitated from the austenite, its performance will be greatly affected. However, the study on the kinetics, process and type of precipitation of carbide (or nitride) in these steels is not so clear up to now. Therefore, the isothermal precipitation of nitride in 18Mn18Cr0.52N steel was studied in this work to provide a theoretical basis for the formulation of hot deformation and direct treatment process after hot deformation. In present work, the isothermal precipitation of nitride from austenite in 18Mn18Cr0.5N steel at 800 ~ 950℃ has been studied by means of metallography and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The results show that for 18Mn18Cr0.5N steel, there is no nitride precipitation above 950℃, the nose tip temperature of Cr2N isothermal precipitation is about 860℃, and the critical cooling rate without the precipitation is about 0.75℃ / s. The quantitative relationship between Cr2N precipitation (f / %) and austenite lattice constant (aγ/nm) is as: -9.2312×104+5.13683×105aγ-7.14503×105aγ2.