As the two main factors in reclamation, soil and vegetation play important roles in the ecological restoration of mining area. In this paper the interactions are explored between the changes in soil and vegetation succession in coal-mine ecosystems, potential functional relationships, succession rules of reclaimed soil and vegetation, research methods and mechanism of interaction between reclaimed soil and vegetation are also discussed. Since linear analysis was mainly used in previous research, while the continuous and dynamic research and comprehensive analyses were insufficient, so for future study, more attentions should be paid to dynamic and comprehensive analyses on the interactions between soil and vegetation in order to offer new perspectives for the study of land reclamation and ecological restoration.