Abstract: The rationalization of rural industrial structure is important in rural economy, peasant income, agricultural decision and national economic development. The evaluation on the rationalization is also an important research area in rural geography and agricultural economics. In this paper, the authors discuss the connotation of rural industrial structure. Then, an index system was created to evaluate the industrial structure in the research area, Yongsheng county, Yunnan province. The results show that the development of industrial structure in Yongsheng is on the way to the right direction with such problems as unreasonable exploitation of natural resources, unharmony industry structure, and unharmony agricultrural industry structure. In the end, two principal countermeasures to regulate rural industrial structure are proposed, that is, adjusting the agricultural development direction to maitain sustainable agriculture, and taking food processing industry as the turning point of the developing enterprises in villages and towns to promote the third industry.

Key words: rural industrial structure, evaluation indexes, Yongsheng county, Yunnan province