Abstract: In order to coordinate new urbanization and new rural construction, rural residents’income must be improved. Property income of rural residents in China increased rapidly in recent years, but it did not play a full role in rural residents’income increase. The purpose of this paper was to get some experience by combing domestic and foreign studies of rural residents’property income. Then the obstacles in increasing property income of Chinese rural residents were analyzed, insufficiencies of the study on rural residents’income were pointed out and the research approach of Chinese rural residents’property income was explored. It was concluded that property income could be studied from urban-rural perspective to find the income mechanism and implementation pattern. It plays an important role in promoting the balanced and coordinate development between urban and rural areas.