With the development of modernization in our country, to implement the strategic decision of urbanization and to accelerate the step of urbanization are very important for optimizing and adjusting the economic structure as well as pushing the national economy into the continual increase.The thesis gives the meaning of urbanization at first;on the basis of analysis on the status quo and existent problems, the thesis discusses the related factors of urbanization in the northwest regions in China;in the end the article anticipates synthetically the urbanization of the northwest regions and its development advantages.