Three-dimensional, viscous, and unsteady CFD simulations have been performed in order to reveal the influencing factors of hot streaks migration in high pressure stage of a vaneless counter-rotating turbine. Based on the numerical results, the comparison between the case with inlet hot streaks and case without inlet hot streaks is carried out, which shows that the effect of inlet hot streaks on the load distributions of high pressure turbine airfoils is not notable and the airfoil load distributions are directly related to the inlet pressure distributions. The predicted results also indicate that the circumferential and radial movements of the hot streaks were not observed in the high pressure turbine stator. This means that the combined effects of secondary flow and buoyancy are very weak in the high pressure turbine stator. The numerical results also prove that the circumferential flow angle effect at the inlet of the high pressure turbine rotor, secondary flow effect and buoyancy effect are the mainly influencing factors to directly affect the migration characteristics of the hot streaks in the high pressure turbine rotor.counter-rotating turbine, hot streak, secondary flow, buoyancy effect, numerical simulation One of the main approaches to enhance specific work and reduce fuel consumption of gas turbine engines is to increase turbine inlet gas temperature. However, with the increase of the turbine inlet gas temperature, the temperature of the airfoil surfaces will also increase, or even exceed the allowable metal temperature. In this situation, cooling system must be applied to keeping the metal temperature under its tolerable temperature in order to maintain the normal operation of the engines. The optimum design of cooling system requires knowledge about the temperature distributions on the airfoil surfaces and the migration characteristics of the cold and hot gas in the turbine flowpath. Experimental data taken from actual gas turbine combustors indicate that the flow exiting in the combustor can contain both circumferential and radial temperature gradients. The phenomenon is known as hot streaks, arising from the combination of the combustor core