In this paper,the coal consumption in China from 1953 to 2006 in the view of who le point,different ages,different provinces and different departments is evalua ted respectively.The results show that:In the past fifty years,the coal consump tion in China has always been increasing with different trends or degrees except the 1960s;The China’s coal consumption concentrated in the northern provinces,if judging from different departments the coal consumption,mainly concentrated in industrial sectors,including electric power and heat power industries,petroleum processing,coking and nuclear fuel processing industries,ferrous metal smelting and rolling industries.By using the parameters from related literatures,the acc umulated number of CO2,SO2,NO2 and dust generated by coal consumption from 1953 to 2006 were calculated,respectively is 8.2 billion tons,5133.05 milli on tons,18821.02 million tons and 3.76 billion tons.