The purpose of this study was to analyze the chemical characterization of Tianshan green tea polysaccharides (TSPS), and evaluate its antioxidant activity by chemicalbased and cellular-based antioxidant models in vitro. The results showed that the TSPS were composed of mannose, ribose, rhamnose, glucuronic acid, galacturonic acid, glucose, galactose, arabinose, and fucose with a molar ratio of 14.