Abstract: In the context of new urbanization and rural revitalization, the development of rural communities has attracted wide attention. As an important part of high-quality development, spatial governance has become a hot topic in academic circles in recent years. Firstly, this paper explains the connotation and characteristics of spatial governance of rural communities from three aspects: theoretical basis, element composition and evolution process. Then, based on bibliometric analysis software, the research context of foreign literature related to rural community spatial governance is studied. The research progress can be divided into three stages: (1) The origin and focus of problem-oriented rural community spatial governance. (2) The means and mechanism of purpose-oriented spatial governance in rural communities. (3) Spatial governance types focusing on diverse topics such as regional characteristics and micro-objects. Finally, four key issues that foreign scholars are concerned about are proposed to provide more ideas for the practice of spatial governance in rural communities in China.