Abstract: Since the implementation of China’s opening up and reform policy, there had been rapid processes of industrialization and urbanization in the Yangtze Delta. This had driven the redistribution of resources in the region, One of the consequences is a unique high-density and homogeneous transformation trend in the countryside; the dominance of non-agricultural industries in the countryside, scattered farmers’ settlements in the countryside, and suburbanization of the countryside. However, this change had also triggered environmental problems such as low efficiency of land use, high pressure on ecological and environmental protection, intense industry competitions, and the large contrast between urbanized and rural regions. In view of this situation, this paper puts forward some suggestions for improving the existing laws and regulations of rural planning and construction, and building new rural space. The focus is to develop norms and standards for rural space layout, rural residential renovation, irrigation and water conservancy construction and local landscape construction, to guide the transition of rural layout and construction in Yangtze River Delta region more standardized, orderly, intensive and concentrated.