Comprehensively promoting rural revitalization means that China's rural development is facing new conditions and backgrounds. It is of great significance to have a deep understanding of the era orientation of rural development inChina. Based on the institutional and mechanism reform deployment of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China for the integrated development of urban and rural areas and comprehensive rural revitalization,this article explains the multidimensional historical achievements in China's rural development from the perspective of temporal comparison. And based on the transformation of national strategy and objective environment on the new journey, it emphasizes that rural development mainly revolves around better coordinated development and security, which means the status and characteristics of rural development need to be further understood. This article introduces the perspective of international comparison and target comparison to demonstrate the main bottlenecks faced by rural development, providing an explanation for the statement that “the most arduous task of building a modern socialist country in all respects still lies in rural areas”. The basic direction of rural development in China is“significant achievements but diverse challenges”.Based on this understanding, this article proposes a breakthrough path from the perspectives of subjects, factors, factor combinations, and factor combination support conditions, which provides policy inspiration for comprehensively promoting rural revitalization and urban-rural integration development.