This study intends to investigate the urban system based on the population present days and to try to present a place where orientation of the urban system for the balanced development of the region and the direction of the urban system in China. The urban population of China, reforming and opening policy since the 1980s, the population began to concentrate mainly in the eastern coastal areas. Accession to the WTO in 2001, the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, the proportion of the population in urban and rural areas has been reversed. Urban system in China According to Zipf's city-rank size rule based on the population indicates top cites show primate distribution and lower cities show the regional weakened association distribution. That urban systems show increasing economic dependence on foreign and inefficient use of resources. That undermines the balanced development of the country causing an imbalance in the small towns and rural areas. Orientation of urban system is modified in order to develop a balanced national land, that plan is network urban system. The orientation of China's cities will be converted into stable and horizontal network type polynuclear structure of Chinese urban system. The metropolitan areas perform the function of a central and small cities will have to find ways to strengthen the competitiveness of the region through regional specialization.