Abstract:Governments are playing the crucial role in the process of balancing urban and rural development.Starting from the position of government role in balancing the city and countryside,this paper illustrates the significance of quickening the transformation of government functions.Based on the problems caused by governments in balancing urban and rural development,this paper puts forward the path for the governments to transform their functions and advocates some ways to innovate the system of government role,public service system and administrative operation system and establishes the “limited,responsible,service and high efficient” government in order to work out the “dislocate,offside and defaulted” phenomenon by the governments in the process of balancing urban and rural development with the final purpose of improving administrative efficiency and promoting the balanced urbanrural development.