Abstract: Twelfth Five-Year” Plan period is a critical period of Shaanxi province to speed up construction for western economic strong province, but also a critical period for rapid progress of urbanization in Shaanxi. In this paper, focusing on the Northern Shaanxi, from regional characteristics, resources and urbanization development model three aspects to analyze developments in Northern Shaanxi, it concentrated expression:resource rich failed to promote regional rapid and efficient development, the level of urbanization overall lags socio-economic development. The paper put forward innovation thinking of urbanization model we should focus on evolution of multifunctional resource-based urban development patterns; relying on regional advantages and characteristics resources to develop industrial clusters and enhance towns capacity; completing rational urban system structure to promote development of urbanization; optimizing urban ecological environment to improve quality of urbanization.