Abstract: Regional cooperation has become one of the world’s strategies in the period of great development and great changes and major adjustments.As a set of impoverished region,old revolutionary base areas,ethnic minority areas,and the mountainous region in one,crossing three provinces of Hunan,Hubei,Guizhou and Chongqing municipality with 71 cities and counties,the Wuling Mountain regional area is abundant with natural resources and human resources.In order to make full use of good country policy to promote the development of the Wuling mountainous region,it must depend on the total cooperation of the governments of the three provinces and Chongqing municipality for having a very good top design and overall layout,especially solving the specific problems of good idea innovation,organization,local legislation,cooperation,integration,cooperation mechanism,collaborative path for the mountainous region so as to clear up such disorders of legislation,system,market,spatial arrangement.

Key words: mountain area, regional development, collaborative path