Abstract:The characteristic town of China originated in Zhejiang. This innovative economic mode is developed on the basis of massive economy and county economy, which is an important carrier of balancing urban and rural development, and an innovative exploration and successful practice in the new historical period and new development stage. The emergence of characteristic towns is becoming a new engine and a new carrier of reform and innovation under the new normal. Huaibei city, as a resource exhausted city to explore and support the foundation and conditions of special towns, to explore the development path in line with local realities, to speed up the layout, to create a number of characteristics of the town, to promote the new urbanization, to promote the transformation of the city will play an important role in the rise of city transformation