Abstract: Currently, helping rural communities from declining to revitalizing is a great challenge faced by many countries around the world. Various resources, agricultural technology, knowledge system and ecological function inherited from the agricultural heritage can play important roles. Based on the resource endowment of agricultural heritage, this paper analyzed the basis for agricultural heritage to help rural revitalization, and discussed its operating mechanism and implementation path. Result shows that the agricultural heritage system contains biological, technical, ecological and cultural resources needed for rural revitalization. The heritage site can utilize the unique resource endowment of agricultural heritage to promote local agricultural products, develop rural tourism, inherit traditional culture, and finally realize the rural revitalization. As a result, three operating mechanisms which can help rural revitalization have been formed: product value-added, rural tourism-developed, and agro-culture-driven. Meanwhile, this paper also identified five implementation paths for agricultural heritage to help rural revitalization, including promoting integrated development of the three industries, accumulating excellent human capital, promoting prosperity of farming culture, protecting excellent ecological environment, and strengthening the construction of grass-root Party organizations. To make better use of agricultural heritage to help rural revitalization, this paper provides some policy recommendations, including strengthening agricultural heritage value assessment research, establishing an ecological compensation mechanism for heritage sites, and implementing a series of rural revitalization projects in heritage sites.