Promoting the coordinated development of "population-land-industry" in resource-based shrinking cities is the difficulty and challenge to realize regional high-quality development. This research constructed the evaluation index system of population, land and industrial development level, and used the coupling coordination model to analyze the "population-land-industry" coordinated development of 26 resource-based Shrinking Cities in China in 2008, 2013 and 2018. The results show that: (1) The development level of industrial system in resource-based cities is high, the development of land system is at the middle level, and the development of population system is low. The coordination degree of "population-land-industry" in each city is at the level of near imbalance and slight imbalance, but most cities have an upward trend; (2) There are obvious differences in the development level and coordination degree of population, land, and industry of different types of resource-based shrinking cities. From the development stage, the development level of grown-up cities is the highest, while that of recessionary cities is the lowest. In 2008 and 2013, the average coordination degree ranked as growing city > grownup city > regenerative city > recessionary city, and in 2018, it is growing city> regenerative city > grown-up city > recessionary city. From the perspective of leading industries, the development level of oil&gas-based cities is the highest, while that of coal-based cities is the lowest. In the three years, the order of the average coordination degree is oil&gas-based city > nonmetalbased city > ferrous metal-based city > forestry-based city > coal-based cities. (3) The coordinated development model of "population-land-industry" in resource-based shrinking cities is dominated by population lag and land lag. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]