diff --git a/deepmd/env.py b/deepmd/env.py
index 8c6937b7f7..5f5c344031 100644
--- a/deepmd/env.py
+++ b/deepmd/env.py
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
 """Module that sets tensorflow working environment and exports inportant constants."""
 
-import os
-from pathlib import Path
 import logging
+import os
 import platform
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Any
-import numpy as np
-from imp import reload
 from configparser import ConfigParser
+from imp import reload
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple
+
+import numpy as np
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from types import ModuleType
@@ -37,6 +38,7 @@
 
 SHARED_LIB_MODULE = "op"
 
+
 def set_env_if_empty(key: str, value: str, verbose: bool = True):
     """Set environment variable only if it is empty.
 
@@ -74,7 +76,8 @@ def set_mkl():
     """
     if "mkl_rt" in np.__config__.get_info("blas_mkl_info").get("libraries", []):
         set_env_if_empty("KMP_BLOCKTIME", "0")
-        set_env_if_empty("KMP_AFFINITY", "granularity=fine,verbose,compact,1,0")
+        set_env_if_empty(
+            "KMP_AFFINITY", "granularity=fine,verbose,compact,1,0")
         reload(np)
 
 
@@ -118,8 +121,10 @@ def get_tf_session_config() -> Any:
         intra_op_parallelism_threads=intra, inter_op_parallelism_threads=inter
     )
 
+
 default_tf_session_config = get_tf_session_config()
 
+
 def get_module(module_name: str) -> "ModuleType":
     """Load force module.
 
@@ -149,14 +154,59 @@ def get_module(module_name: str) -> "ModuleType":
     if not module_file.is_file():
         raise FileNotFoundError(f"module {module_name} does not exist")
     else:
-        module = tf.load_op_library(str(module_file))
+        try:
+            module = tf.load_op_library(str(module_file))
+        except tf.errors.NotFoundError as e:
+            # check CXX11_ABI_FLAG is compatiblity
+            # see https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/using_dual_abi.html
+            # ABI should be the same
+            if 'CXX11_ABI_FLAG' in tf.__dict__:
+                tf_cxx11_abi_flag = tf.CXX11_ABI_FLAG
+            else:
+                tf_cxx11_abi_flag = tf.sysconfig.CXX11_ABI_FLAG
+            if TF_CXX11_ABI_FLAG != tf_cxx11_abi_flag:
+                raise RuntimeError(
+                    "This deepmd-kit package was compiled with "
+                    "CXX11_ABI_FLAG=%d, but TensorFlow runtime was compiled "
+                    "with CXX11_ABI_FLAG=%d. These two library ABIs are "
+                    "incompatible and thus an error is raised when loading %s."
+                    "You need to rebuild deepmd-kit against this TensorFlow "
+                    "runtime." % (
+                        TF_CXX11_ABI_FLAG,
+                        tf_cxx11_abi_flag,
+                        module_name,
+                    )) from e
+
+            # different versions may cause incompatibility
+            # see #406, #447, #557, #774, and #796 for example
+            # throw a message if versions are different
+            if TF_VERSION != tf.version.VERSION:
+                raise RuntimeError(
+                    "The version of TensorFlow used to compile this "
+                    "deepmd-kit package is %s, but the version of TensorFlow "
+                    "runtime you are using is %s. These two versions are "
+                    "incompatible and thus an error is raised when loading %s. "
+                    "You need to install TensorFlow %s, or rebuild deepmd-kit "
+                    "against TensorFlow %s.\nIf you are using a wheel from "
+                    "pypi, you may consider to install deepmd-kit execuating "
+                    "`pip install deepmd-kit --no-binary deepmd-kit` "
+                    "instead." % (
+                        TF_VERSION,
+                        tf.version.VERSION,
+                        module_name,
+                        TF_VERSION,
+                        tf.version.VERSION,
+                    )) from e
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                "This deepmd-kit package is inconsitent with TensorFlow"
+                "Runtime, thus an error is raised when loading %s."
+                "You need to rebuild deepmd-kit against this TensorFlow"
+                "runtime." % (
+                    module_name,
+                )) from e
         return module
 
 
-op_module = get_module("libop_abi")
-op_grads_module = get_module("libop_grads")
-
-
 def _get_package_constants(
     config_file: Path = Path(__file__).parent / "pkg_config/run_config.ini",
 ) -> Dict[str, str]:
@@ -165,7 +215,7 @@ def _get_package_constants(
     Parameters
     ----------
     config_file : str, optional
-        path to CONFIG file, by default "config/run_config.ini"
+        path to CONFIG file, by default "pkg_config/run_config.ini"
 
     Returns
     -------
@@ -176,8 +226,14 @@ def _get_package_constants(
     config.read(config_file)
     return dict(config.items("CONFIG"))
 
+
 GLOBAL_CONFIG = _get_package_constants()
 MODEL_VERSION = GLOBAL_CONFIG["model_version"]
+TF_VERSION = GLOBAL_CONFIG["tf_version"]
+TF_CXX11_ABI_FLAG = int(GLOBAL_CONFIG["tf_cxx11_abi_flag"])
+
+op_module = get_module("libop_abi")
+op_grads_module = get_module("libop_grads")
 
 if GLOBAL_CONFIG["precision"] == "-DHIGH_PREC":
     GLOBAL_TF_FLOAT_PRECISION = tf.float64
@@ -221,5 +277,3 @@ def global_cvt_2_ener_float(xx: tf.Tensor) -> tf.Tensor:
         output tensor cast to `GLOBAL_ENER_FLOAT_PRECISION`
     """
     return tf.cast(xx, GLOBAL_ENER_FLOAT_PRECISION)
-
-
diff --git a/source/cmake/Findtensorflow.cmake b/source/cmake/Findtensorflow.cmake
index 8901c698b9..91ed0809a3 100644
--- a/source/cmake/Findtensorflow.cmake
+++ b/source/cmake/Findtensorflow.cmake
@@ -137,10 +137,27 @@ else (BUILD_CPP_IF)
   endif ()
 endif (BUILD_CPP_IF)
 
+# detect TensorFlow version
+try_run(
+  TENSORFLOW_VERSION_RUN_RESULT_VAR TENSORFLOW_VERSION_COMPILE_RESULT_VAR
+  ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/tf_version
+  "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/tf_version.cpp"
+  LINK_LIBRARIES ${TensorFlowFramework_LIBRARY}
+  CMAKE_FLAGS "-DINCLUDE_DIRECTORIES:STRING=${TensorFlow_INCLUDE_DIRS}"
+  RUN_OUTPUT_VARIABLE TENSORFLOW_VERSION
+  COMPILE_OUTPUT_VARIABLE TENSORFLOW_VERSION_COMPILE_OUTPUT_VAR
+)
+if (NOT ${TENSORFLOW_VERSION_COMPILE_RESULT_VAR})
+  message(FATAL_ERROR "Failed to compile: \n ${TENSORFLOW_VERSION_COMPILE_OUTPUT_VAR}" )
+endif()
+if (NOT ${TENSORFLOW_VERSION_RUN_RESULT_VAR} EQUAL "0")
+  message(FATAL_ERROR "Failed to run, return code: ${TENSORFLOW_VERSION}" )
+endif()
+
 # print message
 if (NOT TensorFlow_FIND_QUIETLY)
   message(STATUS "Found TensorFlow: ${TensorFlow_INCLUDE_DIRS}, ${TensorFlow_LIBRARY}, ${TensorFlowFramework_LIBRARY} "
-    " in ${TensorFlow_search_PATHS}")
+    " in ${TensorFlow_search_PATHS} (found version \"${TENSORFLOW_VERSION}\")")
 endif ()
 
 unset(TensorFlow_search_PATHS)
diff --git a/source/cmake/tf_version.cpp b/source/cmake/tf_version.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9d129aefb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/source/cmake/tf_version.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#include <iostream>
+#include "tensorflow/core/public/version.h"
+
+int main(int argc, char * argv[])
+{
+  // See https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorflow/core/public/version.h
+  // TF_VERSION_STRING has been avaiable since TensorFlow v0.6
+  std::cout << TF_VERSION_STRING;
+  return 0;
+}
diff --git a/source/config/run_config.ini b/source/config/run_config.ini
index 3f2e8cc86a..bb04319e47 100644
--- a/source/config/run_config.ini
+++ b/source/config/run_config.ini
@@ -6,5 +6,7 @@ GIT_DATE = @GIT_DATE@
 GIT_BRANCH = @GIT_BRANCH@
 TF_INCLUDE_DIR = @TensorFlow_INCLUDE_DIRS@
 TF_LIBS = @TensorFlow_LIBRARY@
+TF_VERSION = @TENSORFLOW_VERSION@
+TF_CXX11_ABI_FLAG = @OP_CXX_ABI@
 PRECISION = @PREC_DEF@
 MODEL_VERSION=@MODEL_VERSION@