Abstract: In order to fully understand the development characteristics of rural public culture service policy and promote system construction of contemporary Chinese rural public culture service, the paper presented all the making and implementation of Chinese rural public culture service policy from 1998 to 2015. The results showed that: the rural public culture service policy had the characteristics of attaching importance to the infrastructure construction, the protection of cultural rights and interests, the driving force of cultural projects and the all-covering and equalization. The detailed analysis of the development characteristics of rural public culture service policy is of great significance to improving the construction of rural public culture policy system and to promoting the level of the rural public culture service system.