Abstract: It is of great significance to construct the evaluation system of rural development potential and analyze the development obstacle factors for promoting the future development of rural areas.Taking 115 administrative villages in Qingyang County as the object of empirical research, this paper constructs an indicator evaluation system of rural development potential from three dimensions of "urban radiation, resource background and rural gravity",and entropy method, spatial autocorrelation analysis and obstacle degree analysis are used to explore the spatial pattern characteristics, main obstacle factors and rural types of rural development potential in Qingyang County.The results show that the development potential of each village in Qingyang County has obvious spatial agglomeration characteristics, showing a spatial differentiation pattern of "high in the middle and low in the four regions".The high value areas of rural development potential are mainly distributed around the cities and towns in Qingyang County, showing the common characteristics of close connection between urban and rural areas, high resource endowment and good development of industrial resources.The biggest factor hindering the development potential of rural areas in Qingyang County is characteristic resources.Using "characteristic single dimension-comprehensive evaluation",four rural types are divided into rural gravity-oriented type, urban radiation-oriented type, resource-background oriented type and general comprehensive potential type, and corresponding planning strategies are formulated accordingly as well.