ABSTRACT Accurately identifying regional agricultural advantageous industries and optimizing their spatial layout are critical for advancing sustainable peri‐urban land systems. However, existing studies often overlook public preferences and fail to integrate industrial development with agricultural multifunctionality. To address these gaps, this study introduced an integrated spatial optimization and zoning management framework that jointly considers industrial advantages and multifunctional performance. Using Hangzhou's peri‐urban region as a case study, we combined multi‐source geospatial data to identify agricultural advantageous industries based on both industrial competitiveness and public preference. Building on an evaluation of agricultural multifunctionality, we further explored spatial optimized pathways for agricultural advantageous industries that leverage synergies between industrial advantage and multifunctionality. Results indicated that between 2016 and 2024, townships dominated by cash crops expanded, and agricultural industries became more spatially clustered. The dominant agricultural function largely shifted from ecological to production‐ecological advantage functions, and a pronounced synergy emerged between industrial competitiveness and cultural landscape function. The spatial optimization framework proposed by this study strengthened the synergy between advantageous industries and dominant functions, with the production efficiency scenario yielding the most effective layout. Three tailored agricultural development zones were delineated to support differentiated governance. This research advances methodologies for identifying agricultural advantageous industries and provides an effective pathway for integrative agricultural spatial planning, contributing to global efforts toward sustainable agricultural land system design.
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