Abstract: To investigate the influence of roof cutting and pressure relief on the stability of overlying strata and roadway surrounding rock in deep-buried thin bedrock stope, and to realize the collaborative control of stope stability and roadway surrounding rock pressure relief effect, this study takes the roof cutting and pressure relief project of gob-side entry retaining in the air return roadway of 16061 working face in Zhaogu No.1 Coal Mine as the research background. A FLAC^3D numerical model was established, and the fracture characteristics of overlying strata in the stope and the stress and displacement distribution of roadway surrounding rock under different roof cutting parameters were simulated. The collaborative relationship between stope stability and roadway pressure relief effect was analyzed, and an optimization method of roof cutting parameters based on collaborative control was proposed. The effectiveness of the optimized scheme was verified through on-site industrial tests. The results show that the overlying strata of the deep-buried thin bedrock non-pillar stope presents an “n+Y” fracture characteristic. Roof cutting operation will cause the “n”-shaped fracture line to move toward the upper bedrock, thereby affecting the stability of the thin bedrock stope. With the increase of roof cutting height (12-18 m), the stope stability decreases and the roadway pressure relief effect is enhanced, but the pressure relief amplitude declines. With the increase of roof cutting angle (5°-20°), both the stope stability and roadway pressure relief effect gradually deteriorate. When the roof cutting height exceeds 16 m or the roof cutting angle exceeds 10°, the elastic energy of the roof in the bedrock stope increases sharply, and the stope stability decreases significantly. On this basis, the optimal roof cutting height of 15.5 m and the optimal roof cutting angle of 5° were determined for the gob-side entry retaining in the air return roadway of 16061 working face in Zhaogu No.1 Coal Mine. The on-site implementation effect shows that compared with the roadway without roof cutting, the roof-to-floor convergence of the roadway after roof cutting is reduced by 56.3%, and the rib-to-rib convergence is reduced by 78.7%, which can ensure the stability of the thin bedrock stope and verify the rationality of the optimized parameters.