In the recent experiment on the HL-2A tokamak,two types of improved confinement regimes have been achieved in different configurations.One is the improved confinement regime in Umiter configuration during electron cyclotron resonant heating(ECRH),characterized by a sharp decrease in Hσ emission accompanied by an increase in the total radiation of plasma,the line averaged electron density and the stored energy of plasma.The other is high confinement regime(H-mode)in divertor configuration during a combination of ECRH and Neutral beam injection(NBI)heating,characterized with edge localized modes(ELMs)besides the features mentioned above.The ELMs are found to be localized on the plasma edge(r/α≥0.8),causing average losses of particles and stored energy in the ranges of about1-3% and 3-5% respectively during a single ELM event.So far,the ELMs observed in the HL-2A are type Ⅲ ELMs with low amplitude and high repetition frequency in a range from 200 Hz to 350 Hz.An investigation of the radiated power density profiles shows that radiative cooling effect plays a significant role in the transition back to the L-mode and the triggering of ELM events.