The invention discloses austenitic stainless steel for urban rail vehicle face plates and a manufacturing method of the austenitic stainless steel. The austenitic stainless steel comprises the following chemical compositions inpercentage by weight: less than 0.03% of C, 0.75-1.0% of Si, 6.5-8.0% of Mn, 16.0-17.5% of Cr, 3.0-4.5% of Ni, 0.15-0.25% of N, 0.5-1.0% of Cu, 0.02-0.05% of Ce, no greater than 0.040% of P, no greater than 0.03% of S, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities; the manufacturing method of the austenitic stainless steel comprises the following steps: through the operations of smelting, continuous casting, refining, tombarthite mixture block feeding, and soft stirring, continuous casting slabs are obtained by continuous casting, and the continuous casting slabs are heated; after hot rolling, cooling, reeling, air cooling, solution treating, shot blasting, acid cleaning, cold rolling and annealing acid cleaning are conducted, the finished product austenitic stainless steel is manufactured. According to the austenitic stainless steel for the urban rail vehicle face plates and the manufacturing method of the austenitic stainless steel, the oxidation of the edge part grain boundary caused by overheating of the slab edge part can be avoided; in the process of heating, a layer of dense chromium oxidation film with high adhesion is formed on the surface, the surface quality of the continuous casting slabs is protected, and the guarantee about surface quality control of stainless steel material used for the urban rail vehicle face plates can be provided.