China resource-based cities are facing severe economic pressure, whose strong "locked" feature exists in industrial structure, financial structure, and urban system, cultural and ecological structure. To crack the dilemma in the development of resourced-based cities, we need to establish the prosperity warning mechanism, timely plan the urban transformation, but not to wait till the depletion of the transition; rely on scientific decision, exert the leading role of the government in urban transition, create an environment for the transaction; build a long-term mechanism, comply a virtuous cycle for the development of urban transaction; smooth start industrial restructuring from reality, avoid the risk of marginalized industrial development; widely open up financial resources, solve the start-up capital of urban economic transformation by diverse channel; for the purpose of social stability, re-built area culture, apply the created driver strategy, finally take a way for innovation and development