The invention relates to a method for one-step synthesis of a carbonic acid symmetric ester and co-production of 1,2-propanediol through propylene oxide, and relates to a method for synthesizing a carbonic acid symmetric ester. According to the present invention, the method is used for one-step synthesis of carbonic acid symmetric esters through propylene oxide, carbon dioxide and various alcohols(ROH can be a linear alcohol, an isomeric alcohol, an aromatic alcohol, a phenol, a diol such as 1,2-propylene glycol and diethylene glycol, polyol and various alcohols), the crude products obtainedthrough the reaction contain only the carbonic acid symmetric ester and the 1,2-propanediol, the selectivity of the carbonic acid symmetric ester can be up to 95%, and the by-product 1,2-propanediol as the bulk material can be separated through simple distillation, such that the whole reaction process is clean, efficient and non-polluting, and does not produce any waste; and the catalyst is not deactivated for 5000 h at the reaction temperature of 100 DEG C under the reaction pressure of 5 MPa at the space velocity of 5 h<-1> according to the molar ratio of propylene oxide to carbon dioxide tovarious alcohols of 1:1:3 so as to achieve good stability.