Based on literature review and expert interviews, the conceptions of growth index, growth velocity, accumulation of growth of development areas are put forwards, had demonstrated their respective perform ways preliminarily and a case study of development zone in Hunan Province was conducted.first, a few critical values related to the development phase of different development areas could be defined；then,spatial-temporal varied greatly during the development processes of development areas in Hunan;finally, different regulation policies need to be carried out to promote the transformation and upgrading of the development areas in Hunan.