During the new historical period，the urban local governments adopted two different kinds of reform strategies to cope with the excessive administration trouble and the effective governance challenges：one is the empowerment mode to strengthen the street agencies，and the other is the disempowerment mode to cut the street agencies. The former reform is represented by Shenzhen city，and the latter is represented by Tongling city in Anhui province. Although the reform measures adopted in Shenzhen are completely different from the one which were adopted in Tongling，but both goals of the two modes are reducing the administrative level. But the street agency reform in Shenyang was different from the above two cities. Three reform measures were adopted in Shenyang，including cutting the street agencies，integrating the communities and establishing comprehensive management functional organizations. Different reform models were not only related to the regional economic development imbalance，but also are influenced by the redistribution system penetration strength.