Objective/Meaning  By correctly understanding the impact of youth returning home to start businesses on the rural revitalization, the theoretical research of youth returning home to start businesses was supplemented and improved, in order to provide suggestions for promoting the smooth implementation of rural revitalization.

  Methods/Procedures  The practical significance of youth returning home to start businesses was expounded, the realization path of youth returning home to start businesses to help the rural revitalization was summarized, and the possible practical difficulties of youth returning home to start businesses were analyzed. Then, the corresponding policy suggestions were put forward.

  Results/Conclusions  The youth returning home to start their own businesses was the endogenous force of rural vitalization. The implementation path of effectively helping the rural revitalization was summarized from the aspects of accelerating the integration of three industries, strengthening the system supply, cultivating the rural culture and building the rural order. In view of the practical problems of youth returning home to start their own businesses, such as their own shortcomings and the constraints of external environment, some policy suggestions were put forward, such as constructing the value rural space, the communication channels for returning youth and the rural multi-governance mechanism.