Let be a Kähler surface and be a closed symplectic surface which is smoothly immersed in . Let be the Kähler angle of in . We first deduce the Euler-Lagrange equation of the functional in the class of symplectic surfaces. It is , where is the mean curvature vector of in , is the complex structure compatible with the Kähler form in , which is an elliptic equation. We call such a surface a symplectic critical surface. We show that, if is a Kähler-Einstein surface with nonnegative scalar curvature, each symplectic critical surface is holomorphic. We also study the topological properties of the symplectic critical surfaces.