As an excellent energy storage device, lithium ion battery has been developed rapidly in recent years, and more and more materials have been applied to lithium ion battery. In this study, porous carbon material has been successfully synthesized by carbonization of ZIF-8 in the atmosphere protected by nitrogen. We analyzed the phase purity of the material by XRD, the pores size distribution and specific surface area were analyzed by nitrogen sorption isotherm techniques. At last, the electrochemical properties of porous carbon material in lithium-ion batteries were investigated. the Results show that the specific capacity measured at 0.1C is 284.61mAh/g with good cycling performance, and the cycling efficiency is more than 95%, which indicates that the obtained carbon material shows remarkable lithium storage performance.