In this study, a bacterial cellulose (BC) producing strain was isolated from Kombucha tea and identified as Komagataeibacter hansenii JR-02 by morphological, physiological, and biochemical characterization and 16S rRNA sequence. Then, the media components and culture conditions for BC production were optimized. Result showed that the highest BC yield was 3.14 ± 0.22 and 8.36 ± 0.19 g/L after fermentation for 7 days under shaking and static cultivation, respectively. Moreover, it was interesting that JR-02 could produce BC in nitrogen-free medium with the highest yield of 0.76 ± 0.06 g/L/7days, and the possible nitrogen fixation gene nifH was cloned from its genomic DNA.The BC produced by JR-02 was type-I cellulose with high crystallinity and thermodynamic stability, which was revealed from Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, and thermogravimetric analysis methods. The crystallinity of static and shaking cultured BC were 91.76% and 90.69%, respectively. The maximum rate of weight loss of static and shaking BC occurred at temperature of approximately 373.1 • C and 369.1 • C, respectively. Overall, these results indicated that K. hansenii JR-02 had great potential to produce high crystallinity type-I BC in manufacture.Abbreviations: β, β is the line broadening at half the maximum intensity (FWHM) in radians; λ, λ is the X-ray wavelength (1.54Å); θ , θ is the Bragg's angle; +, the experiment result is positive; −, the experiment result is negative; (+), the experiment result is weak positive; BC, bacterial cellulose; Cel+, BC producing strains; Cel−, BC producing strains lost the function of bacterial cellulose producing; CrI, crystallinity index; CrS, crystallite size; CSL, corn steep liquor; d-spacing, interplanar crystal distance; DTG, differential thermal analysis; FE-SEM, Field emission scanning electron microscopy; FTIR, fourier transform infrared; Iam, the minimum intensity between (101) and (002) peaks; I002, I002 is the intensity at (002) peak which is showed in the XRD profiles of BC; k, k is the shape factor (0.9); nr, The experiment result is not reported; SK, BC obtained from shaking culture; ST, BC obtained from static culture; TCA, tricarboxylic acid cycle; TGA, thermogravimetric analysis; UDPG, uridine 5 -diphosphate glucose; XRD, X-ray diffractometry; YE, yeast extract. .