Abstract: The challenge of the energy supply in China and limitation of new energy resource were analyzed in this paper, and biomass energy as the main substitute was considered. From technical and economical points of view, a pattern of developing bioenergy industry was suggested by taking "oil from plants" as the principal way of development. By utilizing agricultural and forest wastes in parallel with developing energy-resource agriculture, a multiple success on economy, society, ecology and environment would be realized.

Key words: biomass energy, ecology, environment, sustainable development