Characteristic towns have played an active role in promoting economic development and other aspects，and have also received strong support from the state. However，with the rapid development of characteristic towns，there are also problems such as repeated construction and real estate，which need to be corrected in time. As a cultural tourism town with tourism as its leading industry，integrating cultural resources and tourism resources can form a cultural tourism town with distinctive characteristics. This report selects four characteristic cultural tourism towns in the Yangtze River Delta as cases，analyzes the typical characteristics of successful characteristic towns from the perspective of bottom culture and industrial operation，and summarizes the successful experience of cultural tourism towns，which can achieve benign characteristics for national characteristic towns Development provides a certain reference.