Abstract: Oxy-fuel combustion is one of the most potential carbon reduction technologies for large scale coal-fired power plant. The progress of research and development of oxy-fuel combustion in China was summarized here. The fundamental research including the combustion characteristics, pollutant emission, mineral transformation and ash deposit, thermodynamic calculation, dynamic simulation, and economic assessment of oxy-fuel combustion was introduced; the deployment of oxy-fuel demonstration project and the roadmap of oxy-fuel combustion was described; and finally the trends of development in the field of oxy-fuel combustion in China were briefly discussed.