Sports has multiple values and comprehensive functions and is of great significance to the promotion of rural revitalization.In order to give play to the role of sports in rural revitalization,Gansu province implements the project of sports helping Longyuan rural revitalization,which injects strong sports power into the overall revital-ization.By using the research methods of literature,case analysis and logical reasoning,this paper sorts out the sports content and policy guidance in the relevant strategic policy documents of rural revitalization in Gansu,analy-zes some practical cases of rural sports development,summarizes the main experience in the practice of sports help-ing rural revitalization.Based on the actual situation of Gansu villages,it is proposed that the effective ways to pro-mote the rural revitalization of Gansu are to carry out national fitness,build sports towns with characteristics,carry forward traditional national sports,develop rural sports tourism and build sports events with characteristics.