Methanol is av ery useful platform molecule and liquid fuel. Electrocatalytic reduction of CO 2 to methanol is apromising route,whichcurrently suffers from low efficiency and poor selectivity.H erein we report the first work to use aM o-Bi bimetallic chalcogenide (BMC) as an electrocatalyst for CO 2 reduction. By using the Mo-Bi BMC on carbon paper as the electrode and 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate in MeCN as the electrolyte,t he Faradaic efficiency of methanol could reach 71.2 %w ith ac urrent density of 12.1 mA cm À2 ,w hichi sm uchh igher than the best result reported to date.T he superior performance of the electrode resulted from the excellent synergistic effect of Mo and Bi for producing methanol. The reaction mechanism was proposed and the reason for the synergistic effect of Mo and Bi was discussed on the basis of some control experiments.This work opens away to produce methanol efficiently by electrochemical reduction of CO 2 .CO 2 is acheap,abundant, and safe carbon resource,and its transformation into valuable chemicals and fuel has received much attention.[1,2] CO 2 conversion can be achieved by chemical methods,e lectrochemical reduction, and photocatalytic reduction. [3,4] Theelectrochemical reaction system is compact, modular, and the efficiencycan be easily controlled by different parameters,s uch as electrode materials,e lectrolytes,and applied potentials.[5] Theelectrochemical reduction of CO 2 can proceed through two-, four-, six-, and eightelectron reduction pathways in different electrolytes over metals,metal complexes,and non-metallic electrodes,and the major products are CO, [6][7][8][9] formic acid/formate,