Abstract:This article takes Wancun Village in Lianzhou City,Guangdong Province, as an experimental site, and explores how planning can help villages to achieve vitalization through a series of research work, such as thinking before planning, exploring during planning, and continuing after planning. The research proposes to think about the problems based on the characteristics of villages and explore the planning and construction methods based on the characteristics of villages, including public participation as the basis of planning, taking the development and prosperity of rural as the goal, operable actions as the path, perceptible nostalgia as the base, and villagers’ self-governance as the main body of implementation.In addition, the planning work is further extended, and through planning, implementation and promotion, a model of rural development with rural characteristics will eventually be realized,providing new ideas for the development of most villages in China.