协调发展是可持续发展的内核，是国际学界研究的持续热点。内河水运是流域社会经济背景下综合运输与水资源综合利用体系的重要组成部分，是我国及各国实现资源节约与环境友好可持续发展的战略重点。在协调发展的内涵的基础上，结合德国成功的发展经验，探究了我国内河水运体系与国家战略，流域经济、水资源综合利用体系，综合运输体系，自身体系协调发展的意义与要素、存在的问题与原因，一一对应的对策与建议，以期促进我国内河水运快速协调发展。

The coordinated development is the core of sustainable development, and the hot issue of international research. Inland water transport(IWT) is an important part of the water resources exploiting system and comprehensive transport system under socio economic context of river basin, and also the country's sustainable development priorities to achieve resource conserving and environment friendly strategy. This paper is based on the coordinated development content, combined Germany's successful development experience, explored the elements and the problem of the coordinated development of IWT system with China's national economic strategy and basin economy, water resource system, comprehensive transport system, and system itself, and their countermeasures and suggestions，in order to facilitate rapid and coordinated development of China's inland water transport.