This paper concludes the bilateral negotiation pattern in small town planning through analyzing the specific interaction between government and people in the process of the old town renovation in Rongxi town. In the case of Rongxi town，people interacted with the government in the whole process of planning formulation and implementation as a party. The government let people participate in the preliminaryselection of planning scheme from the beginning by discussing the possibility of various scheme with them. As a result，they both had the intention of renovation after excluding the choice of removal and maintenance.

This bilateralnegotiation pattern is not only different from the unilateral decision pattern in centralized states，but also different from the vote in democratic states. It includes government’s mobilization，negotiation between the government and the people on every aspect of the planning and people’s implementation by their own organization authorized by government.