Abstract: Small towns are important connection points of urban and rural development, and the important carrier of new urbanization and rural revitalization in China. It is of great significance to evaluate and promote countermeasures for small towns in Ningxia from livable and workable perspectives. Taking the typical small towns in Ningxia as study areas, based on the index system of residential environment, industry, and employment aspects, collecting data from field survey and secondary-hand data, using coordination coupling degree to evaluate and recognize the patterns for small towns in Ningxia. The results show that small towns in Ningxia can be classified as two typical patterns, namely livable-workable pattern and workable-oriented pattern, as well as livable-oriented pattern possibly existing. At last, problem diagnosis and countermeasures design for small towns in Ningxia is done to guide the future development of small towns in Ningxia scientifically, and can help speed up the process of urbanrural integration.