Hydrothermal carbon (HTC) is typically welldispersed, but it remains a great challenge for HTC to become conductive. Co-doping with heteroatoms has been confirmed to be an effective strategy to significantly promote the electrical conductivity of carbon. Moreover, there is no simple and green method to construct sensitive HTC based electrochemical biosensors until now. In this paper, N and S dualdoped carbon (NS-C) with ultra-low charge transfer resistance is easily synthesized from L-cysteine and glucose in a hydrothermal reaction system. The morphology, structural properties and electrochemical properties of the as-prepared NS-C are analyzed. In comparison with the undoped hydrothermal (UC) modified glassy carbon electrode (GCE), the charge transfer resistance of UC (476 Ω , indicating a high affinity of glucose oxidase to glucose. These results demonstrate that the hydrothermal method is an effective way for preparing high electrical conductivity carbon with excellent performances in biosensor application.