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Abstract The growth of high-quality and large-size cerium-doped lutetium yttrium orthosilicate (Ce:(LuY)2SiO5, Ce:LYSO) crystals with lower cost has great influence on its applications in various physical devices. According to the chemical bonding theory of single crystal growth, the fast thermodynamic growth direction of Ce:LYSO is [010] direction. In this work, the maximum pulling rate of 3.5 mm/h was obtained along [010] direction of Ce:LYSO via the Czochralski (Cz) method. Finally, Ce:LYSO bulk single crystals with diameter of 64 mm and length of 220 mm and weight of 4.2 kg were grown. The luminescence performance of low-doped Ce:LYSO for nuclear irradiation (22Na) detector device was studied. Light yield of 26193 ph/MeV and decay time of 38 ns were obtained. The present work provides a promising fast growth approach to achieve large size functional bulk crystal via both thermodynamic and kinetic controls.