As one of the four major tasks for Shanxi's transformation,the harmonious urban and rural development serves to solve the difficult problems such as unbalanced urban and rural development and less-developed rural area,exploring a new approach for resource-reliant area's transformational and leap-forward development.Based on the analysis on problems and obstacles,the article puts forward the guidelines and main tasks,namely,The Four Priorities in Exploration,balancing urban and rural economic development,social endeavors' development,ecological protection and regional integration of urban and rural areas.At last it puts forward six policy-making suggestions for urban and rural harmonious development in Shanxi. <<