Abstract: Territorial spatial planning in rural areas is the key tool of rural space governance, which plays fundamental, leading and strategic roles, and takes into account land use control and governance actions. In recent years, Shanghai has taken the rural unit village planning as the core, integrating village design, land use control and comprehensive land reclamation, and formed a '1+3' rural space governance path. It has promoted the gradual improvement of the planning compilation, approval, implementation and supervision, laws, policies and technical standard system in rural areas, echoing the trend of extension to implementation, governance and services in rural area spatial planning. By exploring the organic unity of space target management and control and dynamic optimization of governance actions, a dynamic governance logic has been initially constructed at the level of detailed planning. Specifically, the construction of the spatial planning system in rural areas of Shanghai includes three dimensions. Vertically, clarifying the role and core content of territorial spatial planning at all levels, conducting and implementing the requirements of resource utilization and protection in rural areas level by level, optimizing the spatial pattern. Horizontally, coordinating the functions and powers of various administrative departments and stakeholders, responding to the core concerns of the grass-roots level, and improving the efficiency of resource allocation. In terms of time, integrating policy tools, building implementation platforms, standardizing land management and establishing long-term management and collaborative governance mechanisms.