China’s rural reform and development is a long-running and complex project.To explore the major theoretical and practical issues,we may use the law of contradiction in Marxist philosophy as a method.Thus,we can not only accurately grasp the nature of “three rural issues” in China after effectively overcoming the narrow-thinking and avoiding the subjective one-sidedness,but also define the main contradiction and its main aspects in China’s rural reform and development.At the same time,using the law of contradiction as a guide,we will be able to choose the major strategic policy that includes the basic way,the necessary conditions and the trend in rural reform and development.