Abstract: Growth pole system which can simultaneously connect conveniently with national economic centres and stimulate the development of vast rural areas, should be estatblished in less developed provinces. The status and role of the biggest city in the system as the integrated developing centre should be given prominence, so as to heighten its strength in the national network of cities and its diffusivity in less developed provinces. Rural market-place is another emphasis in the growth pole system. The market-place should be developed to form rural community taking market-place as the centre instead of closed rural community representative of villages or hamlets. The establishment of the growth pole system could contribute to heighten the coordinating capacity of less developed province with developed provinces, and is an important supplement to the strategy of overall.productivity location in China.