Shendong mining area is one of the largest coalfield and the most important coal production base in China. Water is an important limiting factor of ecological and environmental protection in this area which belongs to the typical semi-arid, semi-desert plateau continental climate. Underground mining is the main form of coal mining, which would inevitably lead to ground subsidence. Surface moisture and nutrient loss form a large number of cracks were caused by the process. Water shortage have become a serious problem in mining area. However water is necessary for biological survival. Lack of water would hinder the growth of crop and exacerbate the agricultural drought. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) is a ubiquitous symbiotic fungi. The symbionts body could be formed by AMF with more than 80% of terrestrial plant. It find that using AMF could promote to absorb mineral nutrients and water by plant, enhance the stress resistance and disease resistance of corn, improve the soil structure, increase the soil fertility, raise the survival rate of seedlings transplanting and ameliorate the vegetation restoration of land reclamation in coal mining subsidence area. Under drought stress condition, with maize and degraded soil as the host plant and matrix, effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi(AMF)on the growth and nutrient absorption of maize and the degraded soil in Shendong mine area were studied. The results showed that the treatment of inoculated AMF significantly increased the biomass and the root colonization rate of maize. Leaf relative water content and leaf color readings significantly higher than the control. The content of P, N, and Ca in shoot and the content of P, K, and Ca in root portion of maize of vaccinated treatments increased significantly. After inoculation with AMF,the phosphorus nutrition for maize was particularly improved. The phosphorus content in aerial parts of corn of inoculation treatments were on average of 0.17g/kg higher than that of non inoculation treatments and in roots were on average of 0.24 g/kg. Compared with the control, the content of total glomalin and easily extractable glomalin increased by 36.2% and 33% respectively. The content of organic matter in rhizosphere soil also significantly increased. It indicated that the soil inoculated AMF promoted the mineral nutrient absorption by maize and relieved the negative effect of drought on the growth of maize and raised the content of organic matter in rhizosphere soil, which having important meaning on improvement degraded soil in mining area. Using AMF reclamation is conducive to agricultural production and has important meaning for environmental restoration and ecological restoration in Shendong coal mining subsidence area.