To provide a graphite conductor having high heat resistance, excellent mechanical strength and functional properties such as anisotropy to be used for heat conduction or electric conduction from a heat generating section to a heat radiating section in electronic equipment or to be used as an electromagnetic wave shield or a structural material in a special environment by being composited, and to provide a method for manufacturing the graphite conductor.

A graphite having conductivity is obtained by graphitizing a bamboo material through a heat treatment. The graphite conductor can be obtained by preparing strips, fibers or thin plates of bamboo, arranging the material to give a desired conductivity gradient in a crucible and heating and pressurizing the material. By using the characteristics of graphitizing the cell structure of plants and inserting another material to the pores, a graphite conductor having not only conductivity but other functions can be obtained.