Analysis of change rule for yield, agronomic and quality traits of released soybean varieties could providereference for soybean breeding. The advance in yield, agronomic and quality traits of soybean varieties which were be-longed to three stages, i.e., 2000-2004, 2005-2009 and 2010-2014 years according to National Crop Variety Approv-al Notice were analyzed. The results showed that 90 northern soybean varieties had been released since recovery oftest in 1999, their yield were increased as time went on, especially yield potential increased greatly after 2010, the av-erage yield in 2010-2014 was 198.4 kg/666.7m², increased 11.8% over 2000-2004. In the past 15 years, thirty sevenhigh oil varieties were certified, accounting for 41.1% of the total number of authorized variety, more concentrated inthe 2009-2014. However, no high protein variety was authorized. There was a very significant negative correlation be-tween oil and protein content. Some agronomic traits such as plant height, pods number per plant showed a trend of in-crease as time went on. Correlation analysis showed that the yield was very significantly positively correlated withplant height, pods number per plant and oil content. The correlation coefficient were 0.57, 0.62 and 0.42, separately.