Abstract: Modern agriculture is a knowledge agricultural industry, which is produced under the high scientific and technological means such as biology technology and information technology in agriculture. There are three types of modern agriculture in China, which are rural area agriculture, outskirts agriculture and urban agriculture, according to the differential region and social economic circumstance. The following show its main basic characteristics: perfect market system in agriculture industry structure, aggregative and contracted pattern of agriculture production, industrialization of agriculture management form, highly intellectual faculties of agriculture production technology, information management of agriculture production, and so on.