Abstract: The along river region of Jiangsu includes 6 cities governed by the province and 15 cities governed by counties holding Yangtze River bank. The ground area and people along river region account for 25.9 %and 30.2 % for the two categories of the areas, but their GDP in total 48 per cent of the whole province. The development level in society and economy along river region is rather high, but the difference in the south and north of the river is obvious, other 7 indexes in the north is lower than in the south in 8 indexes concerning society, economy and city development except for city density. To construct three city development axes of Ningtong, Ningsu and Sutong and three city development groups of Ningyi,Three rivers and Taiyang along river city strap, two development axes of Ningtong and Ningsu along river are central axes of the city strap. There are development patterns in harbor areas of single and allround functions for the cities away from harbors. The cities away from farbor should take development model of allround functions, but small cities select city development model of single function.

Key words: city, space structure, along river region, development axes