为全面提高煤炭可持续发展能力，实现煤炭开发利用与社会、经济、资源、环境协调发展，2011年中国工程院组织开展“中国煤炭清洁高效可持续开发利用战略研究”重大咨询项目，从煤炭资源、开采、提质、输运、燃烧、发电、多联产、转化、节能、减排的全产业链进行研究。研究论述了煤炭的战略地位与作用，总结分析了煤炭大规模开发利用带来的安全、生态、温室气体排放等一系列严峻问题，提出了我国煤炭清洁高效可持续开发利用战略的思路和目标。明确了我国煤炭“科学开发、全面提质、先进发电、转化升级、输配优化、节能减排、科技创新”的战略举措，

For the purpose of improving the overall sustainable development capacity of coal and realizing the harmonious development on coal utilization, and society, economy, resource and environment, The Chinese Academy of Engineering organized a major consulting project called “Strategic study on clean, efficient, sustainable exploitation and utilization of coal in China” in 2011, which studied the whole coal industrial chain including resource, exploitation, upgrading, transport, combustion, electricity generation, poly-generation, conversion, energy conservation and emission reduction. This paper discusses the strategic position and function of coal, analyzes and summarizes serious problems like security, ecology, greenhouse gas emission caused by massive coal utilization, and proposes the strategic thinking and objectives of clean, efficient, sustainable utilization of coal in China. It also defines strategic measures of “scientific development, overall upgrading, advanced electricity generation, distribution optimization, energy conservation and emission reduction, technical innovation”, which provide scientific support for making plan and policy about coal and energy in China.