Abstract: Creative agriculture is a kind of industry that combines agriculture and creative cultural activities,and in turn adds value to agricultural production. Developed countries took the lead in developing creative agriculture, and achieved remarkable results. German, as one of the pioneers in the development of creative agriculture, launched this industry very early and now creative agriculture in German is with large scale. Exploring the development of creative agriculture in Germany and China may shade light on advancing development patterns, mechanism and functions of creative agriculture in China. By comparing development patterns and characteristics of creative agriculture between Germany and China, the authors found that there were distinctions in terms of business entity, government support, system rationality, citizens’participation, distribution range and specific functions. Thus, in order to further develop creative agriculture in China, more attention should be paid to social value factors and the nature of agriculture should be restored. Meanwhile, the authors suggested that China should take advantage of geographic environment, push forward urbanization, break through the bottleneck of the Sannong issues, expand creative thinking and finally build creative agriculture with Chinese characteristics.