Abstract: Inland ports are mostly characterized by backward construction, small level, low-quality competition and low coordinated development with city. By constructing port level and urban economy integrated index system, coordinated development degree model was employed to analyze the coordinated development between port level and urban economy system of 5 cities along the Yangtze River in Anhui Province. It was found that: (1) the integrated development level of two systems both rose steadily, but port level shifted from keeping ahead to lagging behind urban economy; (2) rising speeds of two systems were differing and gaps of two systems among case cities were widen in recent years, most port levels of case cities gradually cannot meet the need of urban economic development; (3) coupling degree between two systems kept on high levels with slight fluctuations and coupling coordinative degree kept a steady rise, promoting from antagonistic development to high-quality coordination; (4) coupling coordinative degree of case cities rose steady with an obvious differentiation and ranked by Wuhu＞Ma’ anshan＞Tongling≈Anqing＞Chizhou, indicating that city with high coupling coordinative degree kept a high rising rate.