In this paper, we demonstrated the acicular-like ZnO nanostructure powder were prepared by hydrothermal method. We used the industrial aerosol elemental zinc powders through high energy ball mill, and then took ball mill zinc powder into autoclave reactor direct synthesis high length to diameter ratio of acicular-like ZnO nanostructure powder. The samples phase were studied by XRD, the morphology of the sample were observed by SEM, the samples of luminous performance were studied by Fluorescence spectrophotometer. When the hydrothermal temperature is 200°C, hydrothermal time is 24 h, mineralizer of NaOH concentration is 1 mol/L, the samples were washed by alcohol and then dried at 80°C for 3 hours. We had synthesized the high dispersion, high length to diameter ratio up to 50 acicular-like ZnO nanostructure powder.