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.

摘要： 随着化石资源的不断枯竭，能源消费将逐步向可再生能源时期发展。甲醇燃料不仅可以替代汽柴油作为内燃机燃料，而且也可以作为燃料电池等燃料或新型C1化工原料；不仅可以由化石能源生产，而且也可以由可再生能源生产；不仅具有高效、清洁燃料的特征，而且具有生产技术成熟、原料来源丰富的特点，能够实现可持续发展。甲醇燃料是理想的能源载体，在化石能源和可再生能源时期均可发展应用，特别是对于以煤为主要能源的中国，在由化石能源向可再生能源时期过渡的阶段，选择甲醇燃料为发展方向，意义将十分重大。