In the austral winters of 2016 and 2017, we used the AST3-II telescope located at the Chinese Kunlun station at Dome A, Antarctica to survey a group of selected fields near the southern ecliptic pole and within the southern continuous viewing zone (CVZ) of Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS; Ricker+ 2009AAS...21430605R). This first data release contains a data set obtained in the austral winter of 2016.Original acknowledgement for data: Hui Zhang [Nanjing University, China]