The report of the 19th CPC National Congress points out that China’s socialist modernization construction will be arranged in two stages from 2020 to the middle of this century. As an important part of national modernization construction, the rural revitalization strategy should obey the overall deployment of the national modernization strategy. From 2020 to 2035, the struggle objective of China is to basically realize modernization. During this period, billions of small farmer families still exist in rural areas. And the typical characteristics of these small farmer families are that middleaged and elderly parents who lack urban employment opportunities are engaged in agriculture production. The rural revitalization should be based on farmers, focusing on providing service for agriculture production made by the elderly and treat the elderly as the basic labor force. After longterm construction, China may basically realize modernization in 2035, which means a higher stage of rural revitalization strategy implementation phase. The agriculture production made by the elderly may begin to give way to the moderatescale agriculture production made by professional farmers. Therefore, the rural revitalization strategy should be carried out in stages instead of being implemented for quick results.