Abstract: Accompanying with the rapid consumption of fossil fuel resources, a huge amount of CO₂ has being released into the atmosphere, which brings serious environmental concerns. However, CO₂ can also be considered as a clean and non-toxic carbon resource; the utilization of CO₂ by converting it into various hydrocarbons can not only alleviate the greenhouse effect, but also provide a new sustainable route to produce clean fuel and chemical products. In this paper, we attempt to make a review on the recent research progresses in the hydrogenation of CO₂ to certain hydrocarbons (including methane, olefins and aromatics) in recent years; in particular, the advance in the development of efficient catalysts for the hydrogenation of CO₂ to methane, light olefins and aromatics as well as in the exploration of catalytic reaction mechanisms were retrospectively summarized. Lastly, we would like to have an outlook on the possible trends in the utilization of CO₂ as a carbon resource through hydrogenation.