Abstract: The enhancement of urban capacity represents the improvement of comprehensive functions of the city, and it is crucial to analyze the limitation of urban capacity and find a path to break out the constraint of urban development. Ningde city is characterized with the blending of mountains and the sea, with its gradually growing economic strength and increasingly prominent pillar industries, it is mainly facing such constraints as the securing difficulty of the land for urban development, the weak economic radiation of the central city, the lagging integration between the industrial area and the residential area, the insufficient utilization of natural resources in the core circle, the lagging development of the productive service industry, and the overflow of consumption. Accordingly, this study put forward four empowering paths for the urban development, which include efficient utilization and allocation of land resources, rapid development of leading industries, enhancement of urban service capacity, and transformation of mountain and sea resources. In combination with the actual situation, we proposed to accelerate the agglomeration of high-quality resources and elements, vacate inefficient industries, promote the agglomerative development around the bay and the sea, shape a distinctive urban card, expand productive service industries, facilitate basic public service and other specific countermeasures. It aims to boost an all-around high-quality development and strive to write a "Ningde Chapter" of comprehensively building a modern socialist country.