Abstract: In order to study the relationship between urban development and appropriateness of economic development level，taking Hubei Huangpi district for example，from natural suitability，location suitability，ecological suitability，and land conversion suitability four aspects of a total of 10 layers to build a comprehensive factor evaluation system.Based on GIS technology，Analytic Hierarchy Process（AHP）and expert scoring method were integrated to determine index weight factor weight and quantitative criteria to evaluate the urban land ecological suitability of the study area.Coupling relationship between urban development suitability and regional economic development was analyzed from economic development level.Results showed that，level of regional economic development was closely related to proportion of suitability land at all levels of urban area in the region.Level of economic development was higher as land use ratio which was suitable for development of towns was greater.