Abstract: The aim of this study is to give full play to the advantages of natural resources and characteristic industry of Lushi County which is the famous old revolutionary base area in Henan Province, explore the industrial orientation and development mode of urban agricultural tourism and promote the new agricultural modernization of Lushi County. Firstly, the advantages of urban agricultural tourism development in Lushi County were analyzed. These advantages mainly included humanity history and culture, natural resources and geographical conditions and economic and industrial base. Secondly, the development direction of agricultural tourism and the overall layout of constructing“four galleries”including ecological agricultural sightseeing gallery in Luo River Basin, over-summer organic vegetable picking gallery in Duguan River Basin, original ecological product exhibition gallery in Laoguan River Basin and modern ecological agricultural education gallery in Qi River Basin were put forward. Based on this, four development modes of agricultural tourism including leisure sightseeing tourism, vacation tourism using pension, beautiful rural tourism and the red revolution tourism were designed. Finally, four policy suggestions including regulating land circulation, implementing benefit farming policy, playing a role of agricultural science and technology and strengthening rural environment regulation were proposed to promote the development of urban agricultural tourism.