Abstract:This paper selects Hunan province, a core province in middle region of China, as the research object. It enriches the implication of new-type urbanization with a new perspective, and constructs an index system through a combination of qualitative and quantitative method. Besides, it uses the factor analysis to estimate the comprehensive score of new-type urbanization in Hunan province from 2001 to 2013. Studies show that: the new-type urbanization is in a low level stage in Hunan province, from 2001 to 2007, the comprehensive score was below zero, it was until 2008, the score became positive, however it is in a steady rising trend.