Abstract: Lying across three economic areas in east, middle and west China, the Yangtze River economic zone is one of the important engines to boost the social and economy progress in china, and also an essential part of the zonal development strategy in the sustainable development. Yangtze River Economic Belt has always been China's urban corridors, industrial corridors and commercial corridors, concentrate a large number of large water consumption, high energy consumption, large capacity, high-tech industries and large leading enterprises. By studying the current development status and issues of the industrial division and cooperation within the Yangtze river economic zone, the paper concludes that the Yangtze river economic zone has a complementary industrial features but it still exists some problems like the low degree of market development, poor elements flow, the height of central cities' industry is too low, lack of regional innovation capacity, the level of industrial chain is too low and so on. Spreading out in each of the planning, geographic reaches, central cities and leading enterprises aspects, this article not only points out the corresponding strategy in the division and cooperation, and transformation and upgrading of the industry, but also puts forward suggestions on how to build up the creativity and how to catalyze the endogenetic power for the industrial development. And expect it to be a foundation to inspire more future research, as well as to provide references and consultations for researchers and policy-makers in Yangtze River Economic Belt development.

Key words: Yangtze Economic Belt, industrial division and cooperation, development strategies