The invention provides a proportional affine projection echo elimination method based on coefficient difference. The method includes the steps of (A) far-end signal sampling, (B) echo signal estimation, (C) echo signal removing, (D) updating of filter tap weight coefficients, and (E) repeating of the steps B, C and D on the condition that n is equal to n plus one, and real-time echo elimination can be achieved. When the tap weight coefficients are updated in the step D, the step length gi (n) of the ith tap weight coefficient wi (n) of a self-adapting filter at the current moment satisfies an equation shown in the text, namely, in the time period M, the step length of the tap weight coefficient of the self-adapting filter at the current moment is equal to the difference value of any tap weight coefficient at the current moment n and the tap weight coefficient at the initial moment kM of the time period, and when the weight coefficients are updated, the affine projection method of an input signal matrix formed by input signal vectors at multiple moments is adopted. According to the method, the echo elimination effect is good, environment self-adaptability is high, the convergence rate is high, steady state errors are small, meanwhile, computation complexity is low, cost of needed hardware is low, the structure is simple and the method is easy to carry out.