A nitrogen?doped carbon catalyst was prepared by the calcination of the CN _y precursor synthesized by the polymerization of paraformaldehyde,1,3,5?trimethylbenzene and p?phenylenediamine.This paper also investigated the effect of catalyst calcination temperature on the performance of acetylene hydrochlorination.The results indicate that CN _y ?700?1 catalyst has the best reaction activity.It has an acetylene conversion of up to 89.8% under the optimized conditions of acetylene?to?hydrogen chloride volume ratio of 1.0∶1.1,reaction temperature of 280 ℃ and GHSV(C₂H₂) of 90 h^-1.The catalyst characterization manifests that the activity of the catalyst is related to the specific surface area,pore volume,and pyrrole nitrogen content.The active site of the catalyst is the carbon atom bonding with the pyrrole nitrogen atom.Increasing the calcination temperature results in a larger specific surface area within a certain temperature range,and the pyridine nitrogen can also be converted to pyrrole nitrogen to a certain extent.The main cause of catalyst deactivation is carbon deposit.