Abstract: The conversion from farmer to urban citizen has long been the dream of Chinese farmers. However, in contemporary China, with the development of industrialization and urbanization, the conversion of suburban farmers to urban citizens has become a problematic phenomenon. This is because the urbanization of suburban farmers is a passive process which is institutionally organized. This passive process not only brings frustration to new urban citizens, but also causes new urban-rural conflict and potential social crises. Therefore, to find out possible countermeasures, we must take a close examination on problems of the new urban-rural relationship resulted from the passive process of urbanization of suburban farmers in China.