Abstract: The suburbs of major metropolitan areas are the regions most profoundly impacted by the urban hierarchy effect. The transformation and development in these areas are crucial for upgrading rural functions and facilitate the flow of urban and rural factors. With the rapid economic development, the imbalance in urban-rural growth, structural differences have intensified. Suburban rural areas often face a series of challenges, including the transfer of economic development rights to rural areas while the focus of social governance continues to shift downwards, the decline in enterprises, and the aging of the rural workforcet, as well as issues related to village collective economic income and governance. Guided by the current goals of rural revitalization and development, this paper underscores the crucial importance of comprehensively review and reform the overall positioning, spatial layout, development logic, operating mechanisms, and governance models of suburban rural areas. This involves proposing a transformation path that optimizes the functions of rural industries, culture, talents, ecology, and organizations. Taking the rural outskirts of Chuansha New Town in Shanghai as an example, planning response measures include promoting industrial circular development through urban-rural synergys, integrating rural grassroots governance with cultural tourism, implementing cooperative village construction models involving villages, land, schools, and enterprises, and enhancing ecological livability and rural landscape management. These planning responses provide a pathway and practical experience for the transformation and development of suburban rural areas in major metropolitan regions.