Abstract:

The urban agriculture is one of the great achievements of reform and opening-up in China, and is also a component part of modern agriculture. In order to strengthen the study for the theory and practice of urban agriculture, the developmental patterns and some sustainable development-related factors of urban agriculture were studied based on the case analysis for the urban agriculture in some big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Shenzhen and Wuhan. Some suggestions favoring the health development of urban agriculture were presented and discussed. They included formulating laws and planning favoring urban agriculture development, strengthening the talent training of urban agriculture, promoting the integrated development of urban agriculture, leading urban agriculture innovation by technology development, developing circular agriculture, and fostering the social organization of urban agriculture.