For a long time, rural planning has been following the system of urban planning and design, and the results of rural planning are expressed in general maps or aerial views. Many local governments have made rounds of planning, but only little improvement has been made on rural landscape. This results from the neglect of the inherent cultural heritance of villages and the inherent role of cultural values. Urban planning and design methods cannot be used directly to demarcate rural areas. Therefore, we need to form a new planning and design theory which considers rural culture heritance. The micro-intervention planning theory is a cultural-guided planning strategy for rural revival, where the rural areas are transformed and revived using a progressive approach. This strategy is more suitable for rural planning than the big-scale demolition and reforms being conducted in the new round of rural planning process in China.