The common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) is the most extensively cultured fish in the world, as well as in China. Construction of genetic linkage map of common carp is necessary to increase the efficiency of selective breeding, especially complicated traits. So, it is the basis of keeping on the genetic study of a species with construction of full genetic map and location of quantitative trait. In this study，a genetic linkage map has been constructed for the common carp (C.carpio L.) using the mode of outbreeding fullsib family in OneMap software firstly. The segregation of 923 polymorphic markers, including 911 fAFLP (fluorescent amplification fragment length polymorphism, fAFLP) markers and 12 gene markers were studied in a panel with 110 F₂ individuals derived from a single hybrid F₁, which was produced by crossing of redpurse carp（C.carpio var.wuyuanensis）and bighead carp (C.pellegrini Tchang). The results showed that the framework of genetic linkage map consisted of 238 fAFLP markers and 8 EST markers in 50 linkage groups that ranged in size from 2.01 cM to 437.46 cM and consisted of between 2 and 48 markers. The total linkage distance spanned by these markers was 2 876.64 cM with an average of 14.68 cM for the whole framework map, and the map coverage is 66.56%.This genetic linkage map is an improvement of further quantitative traits loci (QTL), fine mapping, marker assisted selection(MAS) linked to important economic traits and comparative genome mapping in common carp.