Tongling City is the second batch of resource-exhausted mining city announced by China State Department, wntcn xs faced huge pressures from economic, social development and industrial transformation. On the basis of constructing approximate linear model and applying physical capacity coupling model, this article studies the coupling .and development degrees of the tourism system in Tongling city. The result has shown that the overall trend of coupling of the system was low during the period from1999 to 2009. This means that the sub-systems of e...