During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, it is necessary to systematically construct the currently thriving rural sports events. This study employs methods such as literature review, expert interviews, and field investigations to elucidate the fundamental concepts and main connotations of China’s rural sports event system. Based on this, it categorizes the events into two major project systems from the perspective of event content: ethnic traditional sports events and outdoor sports events. From the perspective of event structure, they are divided into a vertically and horizontally interconnected classification system. From the operational level, an organizational management system is proposed, including event support systems, marketing systems, environmental systems, and supervision systems. Finally, it is argued that the construction approach should properly handle the two pairs of relationships-development and protection, as well as inheritance and innovation-scie.jpgically coordinate the three major entities (government, market, and society), and strictly adhere to four fundamental principles: balancing comprehensiveness and diversity, embodying tradition and foresight, maintaining categorization and integration, and harmonizing competition and entertainment. This will inject stronger sports momentum into the modernization of agriculture and rural areas during the 15th Five-Year Plan period.