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Abstract Improving the conductivity and optimizing hierarchical porous structures are the efficient strategies to enhance the electrochemical performance of biomass-based porous carbon. Herein, high rate performance biomass-based porous carbon/graphene composite aerogels with the new hierarchical porous hybrid architectures were successfully synthesized by chemical self-assembly method using nontoxic Vitamin C as a reducing agent. As an electrode material for supercapacitor, the as-prepared composite aerogels not only show good conductivity and high specific surface of 893.9 m2 g−1, but also display ultrahigh specific capacitance and rate performance of 176 F g−1 at 20 A g−1 and 81.6% at current density ranging from 0.5 to 20 A g−1, respectively. Moreover, the composite aerogels-based device exhibits excellent cycling stability of up to 99.9% after 10000 cycles at a current density of 2 A g−1 and a higher energy density of 6.11 Wh kg−1 at 5000 W kg−1 compared with the individual porous carbon. The facile strategy developed here is of great significance to further improve and control the performance of biomass-based porous carbon and promote its development as high-rate performance electrode materials in the field of energy storage.