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This volume is a collection of the contributions to the 14th National Conference on Nuclear Structure in China (NSC2012). It provides an important updated resource in the nuclear physics literature for researchers and graduate students studying nuclear structure and related topics. Recent progress made in the study of nuclear spectroscopy of high-spin states, nuclear mass and half-life, nuclear astrophysics, super-heavy nuclei, unstable nuclei, density functional theory, neutron star and symmetry energy, nuclear matter, and nuclear shell model are covered. Contents: Tensor Effects on the Spin-Dependent Charge-Exchange Transitions (C L Bai et al.) Recent Progress on the Determination of the Symmetry Energy (L W Chen) Masses and Magnetic Moments of Ground-State Baryons in Covariant Baryon Chiral Perturbation Theory (L S Geng et al.) Symmetry Energy, Superheavy Nuclei and Hyperonization of Asymmetric Matter (W Z Jiang) Fine Structure of Spin-Dipole Excitations: A Recent Application of Covariant Density Functional Theory (H Z Liang et al.) Octet-Baryon Masses in Finite Space (X L Ren et al.) Fusion Mechanism and Production Cross Sections for Superheavy Nuclei (N Wang et al.) Constraints on Neutron Density and Temperature Conditions for Astrophysical r -Process from Updated Nuclear Masses (X D Xu et al.) Ground State Properties of Ds Isotopes Within the Relativistic Mean Field Theory (H F Zhang and H F Zhang) Effect of Hyperons and Kaons on Nuclear Structure (X R Zhou and H-J Schulze) and other papers Readership: Researchers, professionals, and graduate students studying nuclear structure and related topics.