diff --git a/MindElec/cmake/package.cmake b/MindElec/cmake/package.cmake
index cd5ffad9730cdc48eefd73e10230fd0d50fa71a7..407f46de377c0a86a7e0db1a42efe82d9a0f4609 100644
--- a/MindElec/cmake/package.cmake
+++ b/MindElec/cmake/package.cmake
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ message("===============${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}+++++++++++++++")
 install(
         FILES
             ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/mindelec/__init__.py
-            ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/mindelec/version.py
             ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/setup.py
         DESTINATION ${INSTALL_PY_DIR}
         COMPONENT mindelec
diff --git a/MindElec/mindelec/version.py b/MindElec/mindelec/version.py
deleted file mode 100755
index e388e41545fa0557e6684311be848551d9690726..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/MindElec/mindelec/version.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2021 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-# ============================================================================
-"""Version"""
-__version__ = '0.1.0'
diff --git a/MindElec/setup.py b/MindElec/setup.py
index ec8cfd4e94a1a92fabd6e6d5a93727b889be6366..63585a8c7429e9916b0760e0df844c205d674fdb 100644
--- a/MindElec/setup.py
+++ b/MindElec/setup.py
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ package_name = os.getenv('ME_PACKAGE_NAME').replace("\n", "")
 
 def read_version():
     """generate python file"""
-    version_file = os.path.join(cur_dir, 'mindelec/', 'version.py')
+    version_file = os.path.join(cur_dir, '../', 'version.txt')
     with open(version_file, 'r') as f:
-        version_ = f.readlines()[-1].strip().split()[-1][1:-1]
+        version_ = f.readlines()[-1].strip()
     return version_
 
 
diff --git a/MindSPONGE/mindsponge/__init__.py b/MindSPONGE/mindsponge/__init__.py
index b2ab4ffd54a5c226ed7e05bb545293f4cc8ba78a..771878fb24cdf4d36881dae236e76aab402f218b 100644
--- a/MindSPONGE/mindsponge/__init__.py
+++ b/MindSPONGE/mindsponge/__init__.py
@@ -21,10 +21,7 @@ from .md.potential import *
 from .md.partition import *
 from .md.control import *
 from .md.space import *
-from .version import __version__
 
-__version_info__ = tuple(__version__.split('.'))
-
-__all__ = ['__version__', '__version_info__']
+__all__ = []
 __all__.extend(md.__all__)
 __all__.sort()
diff --git a/MindSPONGE/mindsponge/version.py b/MindSPONGE/mindsponge/version.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e388e41545fa0557e6684311be848551d9690726..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/MindSPONGE/mindsponge/version.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2021 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-# ============================================================================
-"""Version"""
-__version__ = '0.1.0'
diff --git a/MindSPONGE/setup.py b/MindSPONGE/setup.py
index c2d6221ab3a0377bae1252db4c27b4332a5b027d..c71cc69099f60b25f997933f4d8cd7a9feea7b4c 100644
--- a/MindSPONGE/setup.py
+++ b/MindSPONGE/setup.py
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ pkg_dir = os.path.join(cur_dir, 'build')
 
 def read_version():
     """generate python file"""
-    version_file = os.path.join(cur_dir, 'mindsponge/', 'version.py')
+    version_file = os.path.join(cur_dir, '../', 'version.txt')
     with open(version_file, 'r') as f:
-        version_ = f.readlines()[-1].strip().split()[-1][1:-1]
+        version_ = f.readlines()[-1].strip()
     return version_
 
 version = read_version()
diff --git a/version.txt b/version.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..832d5f17a9887d66a4a04bb298852b705628f3d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/version.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0.1.0rc1
\ No newline at end of file