diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 5720dbc24..bbcec8f17 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools>=45", "setuptools_scm[toml]>=6.2"]
+requires = ["setuptools>=61", "setuptools_scm[toml]>=6.2"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ dependencies = [
     'h5py',
     'pymatgen-analysis-defects',
 ]
-requires-python = ">=3.6"
+requires-python = ">=3.8"
 readme = "README.md"
 keywords = ["deep potential generator", "active learning", "deepmd-kit"]