Three new catalysts, in which salen ligands were successfully locked in knitting network polymers, were synthesized through the Friedel-Crafts reaction. As a result, the catalysts possessed high specific surface area as high as 512 m(2)/g with micro-/mesoporous structures, and showed layered morphologies. Owing to the high surface area, the abundant active centers and pores, the Poly-salen-a-Pd(II) displayed superior performance in the Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reaction of various substrates. In particular, the effect from similar catalytic centers for the catalytic properties and stability was investigated by a series of experiments and analyses such as thermo-gravimetric analysis (TGA), scanning and transmission electron microscopies (SEM and TEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS). Notably, three catalysts showed high activity in the reaction, and displayed excellent performance in the hot filtration experiments. This strategy is very cost-effective and convenient, which was highly suggestive to diverse professional audiences in a wide range of heterogeneous catalyst design and application.