Abstract: The Yangtze River Economic Belt is one of the most conflicted areas in China when it comes to economic development and environmental protection. It’s the key problem to be solved that realizing the dynamic coordination between regional economy and environmental system in the process of sustainable development of the region in the future.The analytical frameworks that “scale-structure-efficiency” for economy and “pressure-state-response” for environment are constructed respectively. The spatial and temporal patterns of the coordination between economy and environment in the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2007 to 2016 are systematically investigated by entropy method, GIS and coupling coordination degree evaluation model. And the problem areas of coordinated development are also classified and identified. The results show that: （1)The economic level of the Yangtze River Economic Belt almost doubled from 2007 to 2016, which demonstrates the rationality of its position of the main support belt for China’s economic development. At the same time, the pattern of economic level that “high in the east and low in the west” is stable and its path-dependence are obvious. (2）From 2007 to 2016, the environmental level of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and its rate of improvement are still relatively low, which proves the importance of environmental protection in the Yangtze river. Meanwhile, the environmental level show more of “random” characteristics than obvious law in spatial distribution.(3）There is a steady rise of the coordinated development degree between economy and environment in the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2007 to 2016.Its coordinated index increased from 0.446 8 to 0.602 3, which means it entered the primary coordination stage from the stage of near imbalance. The index presented the overall pattern in space that a descending order of the eastern region、the central region and western region. (4）Based on the combinations among three kinds of data of economic, environmental and coupling degree, the problem areas of coordination development are divided into six basic types to identify. It is found that there are more than 30 problem areas in each research year, in which related to lagging economic occupies an absolute proportion.