The difficulties and opportunities,with which the urbanization and urban construction are faced in less developed counties in Midwest China,are analyzed. The difficulties are bad investment climate,few employment positions and talent scarcity,while the opportunities are national policy support,industrial transfer of large cities and migrant entrepreneurship of peasant-workers. It is pointed out that the governors of those less-developed counties should seize the opportunities,set up livable development concept,carry out overall planning and shard implementation,reasonably control the size of i...