Abstract: ith the accelerating of economic and social development, urbanization has become a major theme that people's livelihood construction in the Tibetan pastoral areas, it relates the development of the local economy and people's livelihood level. With the “the Silk road Economic Belt and the 21st century Maritime Silk Road Initiatives” of our national strategies, it is a great development opportunity for Xiahe which is located the Silk Road, Promoting the development of local urbanization and improving the living standards of local residents. Xiahe County puts the green development, innovation development as the theme, with the advantage of local resources, to stimulate the local economy development, which has realized the main task of the pastoral area urbanization and has got welfare for the local herdsmen. The selection of Xiahe Urbanization Development Path found a suitable way of urbanization development for Tibetan pastoral areas. This thesis mainly expounds how to implement a concept of green development and innovation development to integrate between urban and rural under the background of the process of urbanization in Xiahe. The Xiahe County will find out a reasonable road of urbanization.

(Qie-pai, Professor of College of History and Culture Lanzhou University)