Rural area at the rural-urban fringe, has significant rural space and environment appearance, forming a particularly special rural region. The system function of rural area human settlement is facing disorder, chaos, transition, and other development problems due to policy influence, profit-driven factors, and vandalism. This article discussed how to improve collaborative development of contemporary new rural area human settlement of Hangzhou suburb, from the aspects of village infrastructure, public facility, preservation of historic buildings, policy and law making, rural land system reform and planning management, under the background that Hangzhou is striving to become an environment-oriented city, building a city of high living standards, constructing a networked metropolitan area, and employing the strategy of collaborative planning of rural and urban areas.