Abstract: Guangzhou's urbanization requires the modern urban agriculture. Guangzhou's urban agriculture develops earlier and the degree is higher. It has changed from suburban agriculture to modern agriculture with intensification, marketization, industrialization, high technology, mechanization. Modern urban agriculture in Guangzhou has interior advantages and is facing the great opportunities, but internal weaknesses and external threats restrict its development. we should advance the sustainable development of modern urban agriculture in Guangzhou from the layout, ecological environment protection, the construction of agriculture standardization, optimization of agriculture industry structure, the construction of agricultural brand and logistics system, investment and financing mechanism and so on