This paper considers the synchronization of solutions for lattices of the coupled non-autonomous Chen system. By using the Lyapunov function, we show that when the second coupled operator is negative definite self-adjoint and its coefficient is suitable large, the Chen coupled lattice system is bounded dissipative (In particular, the solutions for lattices of the coupled autonomous Chen system converge to zero as t → ∞). The synchronization between any two solutions of the coupled Chen system can be slaved only by coefficients in the x-or y-component for the suitably large second coupled coefficient. Finally, some numerical simulations are given.