The significance of developing characteristic agriculture in Central Economic Zone was elaborated from four aspects of three modernizations coordinated development, guaranteeing city supply of agricultural products, creating more jobs for farmers, making agriculture more significant. The existing problems in urban agriculture development were analyzed, such as understanding deviation, extensive development, market confusion, short industrial chain, low degree of specialization, harsh environment. Several corresponding countermeasures were put forward, including giving full play to the role of government’s macro-control; perfecting compensation mechanism of urban agriculture, developing characteristic agriculture, promoting deep processing of agricultural products; advancing scientific innovation, improving production efficiency; operating sustainable ecological agricultural development road; relying on traffic advantage, promoting industrialization operation and urban agricultural logistics development.