The extreme value method was used to standardize the original data. On the premise that Barttlett and KMO sphericity test determined the correlation between the original variables, PCA method was used to compress the 15 indexes of urbanization and intensive land use into a few independent principal components. Single principal component score（Fi） and system composite score（Ni） were obtained by combining multi-objective linear weighting method. According to the coupling degree（C） and coupling development degree（D） of coupling development degree model, the coupling relationship between urbanization and intensive land use in Urumqi is analyzed. The results show that the overall trend of the comprehensive index of urbanization level and land intensive utilization degree in Urumqi from 2006 to 2016 is good, but the index of some years is low. The coupling development of the two systems has experienced six development types in three stages, namely, near disorder in antagonistic period, reluctant coordination in run-in period, low coordination, moderate coordination and good coordination in high level coupling period, and high quality coordination. In the future, efforts should be made to reduce the restrictive influence of low intensity of land intensive use on the overall development of the city, so as to create a good situation in which the urbanization development and land intensive use go hand in hand.