Land use mapping using remote sensing techniques supplies essential datasets for scientific researches including global climate change, regional sustainable development and so on. The evaluation information on the accuracy of the land use mapping determines the integrity, reliability, usability, controllability and shareability of the land use maps obtained by the applications of remote sensing techniques. In this paper, the methods, processes and results of multiple temporal land use mapping for China's coastal zone using remote sensing techniques were overviewed, and the land use maps in 2010 and 2015 were selected for accuracy evaluation. The validation samples were collected based on Google Earth and the confusion matrices were established for the whole coastal zone and its sub-regions, respectively. Then, the overall accuracy and Kappa coefficient were calculated. Main findings are as follows: (1) Results of land use mapping in 2010 and 2015 using remote sensing techniques achieved high accuracy. For the entire coastal zone in China, the overall accuracy came to 95.15% and 93.98%, with the Kappa coefficients of 0.9357 and 0.9229 in 2010 and 2015, respectively. (2) The accuracy of land use mapping in China's coastal zone exhibited obvious regional differences. The best accuracy was found in the coastal area of Jiangsu province in 2010, and very high accuracy were found in the coastal area of Hebei-Tianjin, Shanghai city, Hainan province and Taiwan province in 2015, while the worst accuracy was found in the coastal area of Fujian province in both 2010 and 2015. (3) The accuracy of land use mapping in China's coastal zone exhibited obvious typological differences. The very high accuracy (both producer precision and user precision) were achieved for farmland, forest, grassland and saltwater wetlands, and the high accuracy for built-up, freshwater wetlands and human made saltwater wetland, while the worst accuracy for unused land. (4) The misclassification between cultivated land and forest land, construction land and grassland is quite significant. Inland water bodies were easily misclassified into cultivated land, forest land and construction land. Artificial salt water wetlands were easily misclassified into cultivated land and construction land, and unused land. It was easy to mistakenly classify the unused land as cultivated land. These are the issues that should be paid more attention during the continuous update of the land use maps in the future. This study provides supports for the dynamic monitoring and scientific researches on coastal land use changes.