Abstract: The modern agriculture is the direction of agricultural development in China. It is a dynamic process of change, and its connotation and standards of measurement are different in different periods. According to the requirement at the present stage, the evaluation index system of modern agricultural development is built from 18 indicators in 4 aspects including the agricultural input level, agricultural output level, social development level and sustainable development level, and then the analytic hierarchy processis used to evaluate, by taking Ningde City in Fujian Province as an example. The evaluation results show that the development index (F) of modern agriculture in Ningde City is 0.195 795, which is still in the stage of preparation and the modern agricultural development level is not high. From four level of second indicators, the indicator of agricultural output level has the most advantage and the index value is 0.098 858, then sustainable development level is second and the index value is 0.048 573. The agricultural input level and social economic development is low and their index values are only 0.021 902 and 0.026 463. The results match with the actual level of Ningde City. In the future period of process, Ningde City should strengthen the investment, improve the sustainable development level and economic development level in the basis of resource advantages.