Abstract:On the basis of analysis on the objective of agricultural land ranking and gradating,the way,method,object and evaluated factors and elements for agricultural land gradating in metropolitan suburban were discussed in this paper,a case study in Tianhe District of Guangzhou City.Moreover,the actual research was carried out.The results showed that:the agricultural land gradating in metropolitan suburban (1) should take the fruit land and forestry land as the evaluated object,besides the cultivated land (mainly the vegetable land);(2) should accept the method that evaluates and gathers the influence and function of the relatively stable and variable factors and elements of the land simultaneously,but the method that revises the ranking index further according to the variable factors and elements of the land;and (3) should be carried out by divers ways,and compare and confirm mutually to improve the accuracy of gradation result.