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Vertical profiles and stratospheric HNO₃ and HCl columns are retrieved by ground-based high resolution Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) remote sensing measurements at the Hefei site in China. The time series of stratospheric HNO₃ and HCl columns from January 2017 to December 2019 showed similar annual variation trends, with an annually decreasing rate of (−9.45 ± 1.20)% yr⁻¹ and (−7.04 ± 0.81)% yr⁻¹ for stratospheric HNO₃ and HCl, respectively. The seasonal amplitudes of stratospheric HNO₃ and HCl are 2.67 × 10¹⁵ molec cm⁻² and 4.76 × 10¹⁴ molec cm⁻² respectively, both reaching their maximum in March and their minimum in September, due to the tropopause height variation. Further, HNO₃ and HCl data were used to compare with Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) satellite data. MLS satellite data showed similar seasonal variations and annual rates with FTIR data, and the stratospheric HNO₃ and HCl columns of the two datasets have correlation coefficients (r) of 0.87 and 0.88, respectively. The mean bias between satellite and FTIR data of stratospheric HNO₃ and HCl columns are (−8.58 ± 12.22)% and (4.58 ± 13.09)%, respectively.