Abstract: With depleting fossil fuel resources，energy consumption will be changed to renewable energy. Methanol fuel as a highly-efficient and clean alternative fuel，can be used not only to fuel internal combustion engine vehicles in order to replace gasoline and diesel today，but also to fuel fuel-cell vehicles in the future，and methanol as an important feedstock can be used to synthesize gasoline，dimethyl ether (DME)，hydrogen，etc. There is a variety of feedstocks to synthesize methanol commercially，such as natural gas，coal，heavy oil，naphtha in the fossil energy age，and biomass，H2 and CO2 in the renewable energy age. The commercial technology to produce methanol fuel is mature and the large scale production equipment has been established all around the world. Methanol fuel is an ideal energy carrier to meet the demand of sustainable development of energy consumption from fossil energy to renewable energy. With abundant coal resources in China，it is strategically significant to choose methanol fuel as its alternative fuel.