diff --git a/python/paddle/distributed/__init__.py b/python/paddle/distributed/__init__.py
index 8f6237bfa4c4b1e2df7a87a04d6135e4fb69a59d..183f307607c36257fb7af71ac672c213411d3ef0 100644
--- a/python/paddle/distributed/__init__.py
+++ b/python/paddle/distributed/__init__.py
@@ -61,8 +61,11 @@ from .communication import (
     get_backend,
 )  # noqa: F401
 
+from .auto_parallel.process_mesh import ProcessMesh  # noqa: F401
+from .auto_parallel.api import DistAttr  # noqa: F401
+
 from .auto_parallel import shard_op  # noqa: F401
-from .auto_parallel import shard_tensor  # noqa: F401
+from .auto_parallel.api import shard_tensor  # noqa: F401
 
 from .fleet import BoxPSDataset  # noqa: F401
 
@@ -120,4 +123,7 @@ __all__ = [  # noqa
     "reduce_scatter",
     "is_available",
     "get_backend",
+    "ProcessMesh",
+    "DistAttr",
+    "shard_tensor",
 ]
diff --git a/python/paddle/distributed/auto_parallel/api.py b/python/paddle/distributed/auto_parallel/api.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b25799d058ad2f046e9ff253bdcabc0176587ed1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/paddle/distributed/auto_parallel/api.py
@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+#   Copyright (c) 2023 PaddlePaddle Authors. All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# 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.
+
+import paddle
+from paddle.distributed.auto_parallel.process_mesh import ProcessMesh
+from paddle.framework import core
+
+# There are the auto parallel API of the unified version of dynamic and static mode.
+# Some APIs have the same name with the previous APIs implementation, which are
+# a temporary state, and the APIs here will eventually be used.
+
+
+class DistAttr(core.TensorDistAttr):
+    """
+    DistAttr specifies how tensors are distributed or sliced on ProcessMesh.
+
+    Args:
+        mesh(paddle.distributed.ProcessMesh): The `ProcessMesh` object describes the Cartesian topology of the used processes.
+        sharding_specs(list[str|None]): The specification describing how to shard the Tensor.
+
+    Examples:
+
+    .. code-block:: python
+
+        import paddle
+        import paddle.distributed as dist
+
+        mesh = dist.ProcessMesh([[2, 4, 5], [0, 1, 3]], dim_names=["x", "y"])
+        dist_attr = dist.DistAttr(mesh=mesh, sharding_specs=['x', 'y'])
+
+        print(dist_attr)
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, mesh, sharding_specs):
+        # 1. inputs checking
+        if not isinstance(mesh, ProcessMesh):
+            raise ValueError(
+                "The mesh must be an instance of paddle.distributed.ProcessMesh."
+            )
+        if not isinstance(sharding_specs, list):
+            raise ValueError("The sharding_specs must be an instance of list.")
+        assert all(
+            isinstance(dim_name, str) or dim_name is None
+            for dim_name in sharding_specs
+        ), 'The dimension name in sharding_specs must be an instance of str.'
+
+        dims_mapping = [
+            mesh.dim_names.index(dim_name) if dim_name is not None else -1
+            for dim_name in sharding_specs
+        ]
+
+        # 2. init core.TensorDistAttr
+        core.TensorDistAttr.__init__(self)
+        self.process_mesh = mesh
+        self.dims_mapping = dims_mapping
+
+
+def shard_tensor(
+    data, dtype=None, place=None, stop_gradient=True, dist_attr=None
+):
+    """
+    Constructs a ``paddle.Tensor`` with distributed attributes from ``data``,
+    which can scalar, tuple, list, numpy.ndarray, paddle.Tensor.
+
+    If the ``data`` is already a Tensor, transform it to a Distributed Tensor.
+
+    Args:
+        data(scalar|tuple|list|ndarray|Tensor): Initial data for the tensor.
+            Can be a scalar, list, tuple, numpy.ndarray, paddle.Tensor.
+        dtype(str|np.dtype, optional): The desired data type of returned tensor. Can be 'bool' , 'float16' ,
+            'float32' , 'float64' , 'int8' , 'int16' , 'int32' , 'int64' , 'uint8',
+            'complex64' , 'complex128'. Default: None, infers dtype from ``data``
+            except for python float number which gets dtype from ``get_default_type`` .
+        place(CPUPlace|CUDAPinnedPlace|CUDAPlace|str, optional): The place to allocate Tensor. Can be
+            CPUPlace, CUDAPinnedPlace, CUDAPlace. Default: None, means global place. If ``place`` is
+            string, It can be ``cpu``, ``gpu:x`` and ``gpu_pinned``, where ``x`` is the index of the GPUs.
+        stop_gradient(bool, optional): Whether to block the gradient propagation of Autograd. Default: True.
+        dist_attr(paddle.distributed.DistAttr): Specify how tensors are distributed or sliced on ProcessMesh.
+
+    Returns:
+        Tensor: A Tensor constructed from ``data`` with distributed attributes.
+
+    Examples:
+
+    .. code-block:: python
+
+        import paddle
+        import paddle.distributed as dist
+
+        mesh = dist.ProcessMesh([[2, 4, 5], [0, 1, 3]], dim_names=["x", "y"])
+        dist_attr = dist.DistAttr(mesh=mesh, sharding_specs=['x', 'y'])
+
+        # dense tensor
+        a = paddle.to_tensor([[1,2,3],
+                              [5,6,7]])
+        # distributed tensor
+        d_tensor = dist.shard_tensor(a, dist_attr=dist_attr)
+
+        print(d_tensor)
+    """
+    # 1. create dense tensor
+    # `paddle.to_tensor` supports both dynamic and static mode
+    data = paddle.to_tensor(data)
+
+    # 2. create dist tensor
+    assert len(dist_attr.dims_mapping) == len(
+        list(data.shape)
+    ), "The length of sharding_specs must be same as the shape of the input tensor."
+
+    if paddle.in_dynamic_mode():
+        return paddle.Tensor(data, dist_attr=dist_attr)
+    else:
+        raise NotImplementedError(
+            "The `paddle.distributed.shard_tensor` for static mode will be implemented later."
+        )
diff --git a/python/paddle/distributed/auto_parallel/process_mesh.py b/python/paddle/distributed/auto_parallel/process_mesh.py
index 1c2f292e5f861497354ae4603cd7562c82913087..a6ad3355d7d2cf4c89b49c3c4d214d59663cc7ce 100644
--- a/python/paddle/distributed/auto_parallel/process_mesh.py
+++ b/python/paddle/distributed/auto_parallel/process_mesh.py
@@ -82,8 +82,9 @@ class ProcessMesh(core.ProcessMesh):
         .. code-block:: python
 
             import paddle
+            import paddle.distributed as dist
 
-            mesh = auto.ProcessMesh([[2, 4, 5], [0, 1, 3]], dim_names=["x", "y"])
+            mesh = dist.ProcessMesh([[2, 4, 5], [0, 1, 3]], dim_names=["x", "y"])
             assert mesh.shape == [2, 3]
             assert mesh.process_ids == [2, 4, 5, 0, 1, 3]
 
@@ -162,6 +163,13 @@ class ProcessMesh(core.ProcessMesh):
         """
         return self._mesh
 
+    @property
+    def dim_names(self):
+        """
+        Get the underlying dimension names of ProcessMesh.
+        """
+        return self._dim_names
+
     @property
     def unique_id(self):
         """
diff --git a/test/auto_parallel/CMakeLists.txt b/test/auto_parallel/CMakeLists.txt
index fe67e34c03d3916e175ae77e3c0a443861b3d89b..83c2ae84182fb7aa1831aec01c773dc11170e8fe 100644
--- a/test/auto_parallel/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/test/auto_parallel/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ if(WITH_DISTRIBUTE AND WITH_GPU)
   py_test_modules(test_engine_save_load MODULES test_engine_save_load)
   py_test_modules(test_rule_based_tuner MODULES test_rule_based_tuner)
   py_test_modules(test_dist_tensor MODULES test_dist_tensor)
+  py_test_modules(test_shard_tensor_api MODULES test_shard_tensor_api)
   # End of unittests WITH single card WITHOUT timeout
 
 endif()
diff --git a/test/auto_parallel/test_dist_tensor.py b/test/auto_parallel/test_dist_tensor.py
index 58ebc0850046b2b170234eea85d8dba6fc77b629..61705a322e2d6097121e67dc4753d2d1ffe92b0d 100644
--- a/test/auto_parallel/test_dist_tensor.py
+++ b/test/auto_parallel/test_dist_tensor.py
@@ -17,20 +17,22 @@ import unittest
 import numpy as np
 
 import paddle
+import paddle.distributed as dist
 
 
 class TestDistTensor(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_dist_tensor_creation(self):
         shape = [10, 5]
-        dist_attr = paddle.fluid.core.TensorDistAttr()
+        mesh = dist.ProcessMesh([[0, 1], [2, 3]], dim_names=["x", "y"])
+        dist_attr = dist.DistAttr(mesh=mesh, sharding_specs=['x', 'y'])
 
         # create dist tensor using numpy
-        dist_tensor_with_numpy = paddle.Tensor(
+        dist_tensor_with_numpy = dist.shard_tensor(
             np.ones(shape, dtype=np.float32), dist_attr=dist_attr
         )
 
         # create dist tensor using tensor
-        dist_tensor_with_tensor = paddle.Tensor(
+        dist_tensor_with_tensor = dist.shard_tensor(
             paddle.ones(shape), dist_attr=dist_attr
         )
 
diff --git a/test/auto_parallel/test_shard_tensor_api.py b/test/auto_parallel/test_shard_tensor_api.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..124c7dc7ba39e0ff2f72add381b47ba2de0a5fd0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/auto_parallel/test_shard_tensor_api.py
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2023 PaddlePaddle Authors. All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# 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.
+
+import unittest
+
+import paddle
+import paddle.distributed as dist
+
+
+class TestDistAttrBasic(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_mesh_argument_error(self):
+        exception = None
+        try:
+            mesh = [[0, 1], [2, 3]]
+            dist_attr = dist.DistAttr(mesh=mesh, sharding_specs=['x', 'y'])
+        except ValueError as ex:
+            self.assertIn(
+                "The mesh must be an instance of paddle.distributed.ProcessMesh",
+                str(ex),
+            )
+            exception = ex
+
+        self.assertIsNotNone(exception)
+
+    def test_sharding_specs_argument_error(self):
+        exception = None
+        try:
+            mesh = dist.ProcessMesh(
+                [[2, 4, 5], [0, 1, 3]], dim_names=["x", "y"]
+            )
+            dist_attr = dist.DistAttr(
+                mesh=mesh, sharding_specs={"x": 0, "y": 1}
+            )
+        except ValueError as ex:
+            self.assertIn(
+                "The sharding_specs must be an instance of list", str(ex)
+            )
+            exception = ex
+
+        self.assertIsNotNone(exception)
+
+
+class TestShardTensorBasic(unittest.TestCase):
+    # remove this test after static mode is supported
+    def test_static_mode_unimplemented(self):
+        exception = None
+        try:
+            paddle.enable_static()
+            mesh = dist.ProcessMesh(
+                [[2, 4, 5], [0, 1, 3]], dim_names=["x", "y"]
+            )
+            dist_attr = dist.DistAttr(mesh=mesh, sharding_specs=['x', 'y'])
+            a = paddle.to_tensor([[1, 2, 3], [5, 6, 7]])
+            d_tensor = dist.shard_tensor(a, dist_attr=dist_attr)
+        except NotImplementedError as ex:
+            self.assertIn(
+                "The `paddle.distributed.shard_tensor` for static mode will be implemented later",
+                str(ex),
+            )
+            exception = ex
+            paddle.disable_static()
+
+        self.assertIsNotNone(exception)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()