The 15th Five-Year Plan Period is a crucial stage for rural governance modernization in China, moving from overcoming difficulties to achieving overall advancement. Its essence lies in the systematic improvement of the governance subjects, methods, and concepts. During the 14th Five-Year Plan Period, China has initially established the rural governance modernization pattern centered around the CPC’s leadership, the integration of “three forms of governance” (self-governance, law-based governance, and virtue-based governance) as its main content, and intelligent governance as the support, which has laid a solid foundation for the modernization of rural governance in the 15th Five-Year Plan Period. However, to achieve the goals of rural governance modernization in the 15th Five-Year Plan Period, it is essential to focus on the Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan, adhere to the CPC’s leadership in the systematic improvement of rural governance modernization, and regard the “integration of the three forms of governance” as the supporting system, and technology-based intelligent governance as a crucial enabler. Specifically, the CPC’s leadership should shift from “organizational coverage” to “systematic guidance”, achieving “all-domain Party building” guidance across industry, talent, culture, ecology, and organization, deeply embedding the Party organization in all scenarios and chains of rural governance. In the “integration of the three forms of governance”, self-governance should rise from “expanding platforms” to “regularization and efficiency”, and law-based governance should upgrade from “system supply” to “service improvement”, while virtue-based governance should change from “breaking the old and establishing the new” to “civilization leading”. The three forms of governance should mutually align and complement each other to jointly build the foundation of rural governance. Intelligent governance should shift from “digital infrastructure” to “scene empowerment”, converting data into insights and technology into efficiency. The CPC’s leadership, the integration of the three forms of governance, and intelligent governance empowerment will jointly construct the overall blueprint of rural governance modernization in the 15th Five-Year Plan Period, and provide theoretical guidance and practical references for promoting rural governance modernization in China in the new era.