Flue gas clean-up is an important task for sustainable development of China.Dominant technologies used today in the world are effective only for single pollutant removal under conditions significantly different from that of flue gas emission，and the overall cost for multi-pollutants removal is high.Carbon materials have superior properties for removal of many flue gas pollutants，individually or collectively，at temperatures of flue gas emission.V2O5/activated coke shows even higher activities mainly due to the oxidative properties of V2O5，which makes it better than activated coke itself and other metal oxides-modified activated coke.V2O5/activated coke may be the core for development of new generation technologies for flue gas clean-up.This article summarizes main research and development of V2O5/activated coke in the past decade，and reveals significant contributions made by Chinese researchers.