Abstract:Under the new normal process of economic restructuring, innovation is the core driving force, while the development of recycling economy is the basic way; the coordinated development between innovation capability and recycling economy concerns the speed and quality of economic transition. By using evaluation methods including GPCA and measurement of coordinated development, the study found: on the timing evolution, since 2005, China's provincial recycling economic development level and innovation capability has significantly improved, but the level of coordinated development shows a downward trend in the majority of provinces and cities, and more than half of the provinces are in the condition of the brink of disorder and severe imbalance, while four types of lag factors are different; on the spatial evolution, the spatial cluster features of the coordinated development between provincial recycling economy and innovation capability become more and more obvious, provinces in well-coordinated and reluctant-coordinated development tend to the coastal developed areas , On the verge of imbalance development areas gradually concentrate to the northeast, central and surrounding, while the serious imbalanced evolve to the region of "Xin - Qing- Ning ".