The purpose of the present invention is to provide a methanol production process which can produce methanol from carbon dioxide and hydrogen with high efficiency and can reduce the load on the global environment. This methanol production process comprises the steps of: (a) reacting hydrogen with carbon dioxide in the presence of a copper-containing catalyst in a reactor to produce a reaction mixture containing methanol; (b) circulating a portion or the whole of the reaction mixture through the step (a); (c1) burning a portion of the reaction mixture to produce a burned product and an energy when the reaction mixture contains 0.1 mol% or more (wherein the amount of a component produced by removing methanol and water from the reaction mixture is defined as 100 mol%) of a compound (p) comprising a carbon that is not associated with methanol and hydrogen; (c2) circulating a portion or the whole of the burned product through the step (a); and (d) separating a methanol-containing component from the reaction mixture.
