In order to reveal the control effect of isolated coal pillar on overburden movement during mining along the dip direction of shallow buried working face in western China, the Daliuta coal mine is used as the engineering background, and the similar material simulation experiment method is used to analyze the isolation of the coal pillar against the overburden in the mining process. The control effect of moving deformation, and analysis of the characteristics of coal pillar stress change and its reasonable retention. The results show that the 2<sup>-2</sup> coal working face has an asymmetric trapezoid along the inclined mining space, and the breaking angle of the open cut side is more than 10° of the mining side; the overburden height is closely related to the working face"s tendency to mining. When the full mining is fully utilized, the height of the overburden fall is reduced; in the direction of the mining area, due to the existence of isolated coal pillars between the working faces, each working face will form separate falling belts, and the isolated coal pillars are effectively separated. The transverse penetration and longitudinal expansion of the collapsed space of adjacent working faces separate the settlement curves of the overburden layers on adjacent working faces. In the coal seam mining process, the 30m wide isolation coal pillar stress is lower than the ultimate strength, and the coal pillar is in a stable state. Finally, the theoretical calculation of the reasonable coal pillar width of 2<sup>-2</sup> coal and 5<sup>-2</sup> coal is 18.6m, 24.5m, and the reasonable misalignment range is 95.5 m <Lσ<242.1 m