Abstract:To realize the economic sustainable development,the coordination between economic growth and environmental quality was an important path. The environmental problems in Guangdong were increasingly serious simultaneously with the high-speed economic growth. Based on analyzing the coupling relationship between economic growth and environmental quality of Guangdong, we established the typical index system of economic-environment system and analyze economic environment coupling from 1980 to 2013. The result showed: from 31years, economic environment coordination degree gradually transited from the offset decline stage to the benign coordination stage; economic growth and environmental quality were in an unsynchronized. in order to achieve the sustainable development of economy and environment in guangdong, it illustrated that the Guangdong Economic and environmental coordination was out of sync, the control was need timely to take corresponding environmental and economic policy measures.