Abstract: During the 14th Five-year Plan period, village planning will play a key role in implementing rural construction and comprehensively promoting rural revitalization. The construction of village public space is an important starting point for village planning to guide rural construction and play the role of ‘acupoint’. This paper refines 10 essentials of the ‘acupunctural start’ method of village planning from the theoretical level, including a public place with appropriate scale, reflecting the local cultural connotation or characteristic theme, existing buildings or other interfaces around, visible natural environment, being connected with the main pedestrian road of the village and has multiple access roads, being adjacent to the parking lot, being adjacent to public toilets, covered and shaded local areas, providing seat rest and rain shelter functions, using local building materials to reflect local texture patterns for paving, and suitable night lighting and auxiliary facilities. Combined with the case of Shatan Village in Yutou Town, Huangyan District, Zhejiang Province, this paper further explains the specific design application of the 10 essentials, in order to provide planning and design reference for village planning and construction according to local conditions.