three hundred and fifty-five soybean varieties with different growth habits growing at Huanghuai summer sowing region were employed to investigate some main agronomic traits and yield performance and their correlations. The results indicated that the average of the vegetative period, plant height, effective branches, pods per plant, lodging, plant type traits reduced gradually in the order from indeterminate, semideterminate to determinate soybeans and the opposite trend was found in reproductive period, seed weight per plant, 100-seed weight, and plot yield. Highly significant positive correlation was found between yield and both plant height and seed weight per plant in indeterminate soybean accessions, with the partial correlation coefficients of 0.602** and 0.566**, respectively, while the significant negative correlation was between yield and both effective branch and lodging, the partial correlation coefficient was -0.384* and -0.451*, respectively.. In contrast, in semideterminate soybeans accessions, the correlations between yield and both seed weight per plant and reproductive period were significantly and highly significantly positive, showing partial correlation coefficients of 0.156* and 0.536**, respectively, while the correlation between yield and effective branch was highly negative, with a partial correlation coefficient of -0.323**. In determinate soybean varieties, the plot yield was found to have partial correlation coefficients of 0.433**, 0.262**, -0.160*, -0.202** with seed weight per plant, plant height, plant type, pods per plant. . Combined with the growth characteristics of soybean varieties of different growth habits, this study suggested that indeterminate soybean varieties should be more suitable for growing in arid areas and the semideterminate ones need nutrient supply during reproductive period, that determinate soybean varieties have short plant height because of short vegetative stage and limited absorption of light energy . The formation of high-yielding trait mainly depended on the balance between the various traits. So, during vegetative growth of the determinate, plenty of fertilizer supply is indispensable and excessive growth should be avoided.