Abstract: Traditional approaches to rural landscape governance in China face multiple challenges; they can no longer meet current needs, making innovation imperative. This paper relies on policy texts as evidence and selects 32 representative landscape policies from the central governments of the United Kingdom, France, the United States, and Japan. It creates a dual-track comparative method combining ‘textual quantification and historical context'. To identify policy focus areas and their semantic structures across countries, the first step involves extracting TF-IDF keywords and calculating their weights using Python. We analyze the evolution of policy phase objectives by integrating them with the social context.The results indicate that conserving historic landscapes and engaging with communities is the focus in the United Kingdom; the United States emphasizes the connection between ecosystem preservation and multi-scale planning; Japan places a strong emphasis on the living preservation and institutional advancement of regional cultural heritage; France focuses on revitalizing agricultural landscapes and managing aesthetics.By integrating historical analysis with textual data, the study reveals different strategic orientations across ecological, cultural, and social dimensions. This study offers theoretical and practical guidance for adaptive rural landscape policymaking in China within the context of globalization.