Based on the panel data from cities and states on 2001 -2012, this paper analyzes the relationship between urbaniza- tion, the income gap between urban and economic growth in Hunan province by using panel cointegration models. The results show that the level of urbanization and the urban - rural income gap exists a long - term and stability panel coin- tegration relations with economic growth in Hunan. In general, the relationship of urbanization and income gap between urban and rural shows a negative correlation,, and so is the income gap bet...