Abstract: China’s urban agriculture has the background of multi-functionalization, urbanization, industrialization and non-agriculturization. From the perspective of the evolution of the social and economic foundation, the development of non-agricultural functions since the reform and open policy is the supplement?and contribution to the general modernization of urban agriculture, while at the same time it inhibits, delays and destructs the narrow-sense agricultural modernization. The changes that are caused by it and moving reversely to the narrow-sense agricultural modernization in the space have formed the “counter-modernization” in the spatial framework of urban agriculture. The present urban agriculture is a coupling process of modernization and "counter-modernization”. The present overall spatial state of China’s urban agriculture is the type of “counter-modernization” with various cross distributed agricultural forms, its existence has certain rationality.

Key words: counter-modernization; spatial framework; urban agriculture; various agricultural forms