Abstract: The development history of the city reveals that the development zone is both an important growth pole of city development and the window of foreign reforming and opening. Corresponding actual development of Development Zone, domestic and foreign scholars is also showing a pluralistic tendency on the development zone, especially in the past ten years, the research topic of development zone to upgrade is the quite rich, mainly in the following six aspects: transformation and upgrading of the strategic in development zone; the influence factors transformation and upgrading;the mode of transformation and upgrading; development area and city space organization;the function transformation of development zone. Review the research discovery, development zone research becomes gradually richer and shows a high quality, but in terms of discipline development in pattern, transformation and upgrading, transformation and upgrading path and transformation and upgrading potential should be developed and perfected further.