With the expansion of investment in rural resources by the China government, it has become the main force supporting rural development initiatives, and government-led efforts have become an important angle for studying current Chinese rural development. This article takes the characteristic idyllic countryside construction in Jiangsu Province as the research object, analyzing the role played by the government in various stages of its construction practice, and forming a clear path for characteristic idyllic countryside construction. Furthermore, it combines practical village analysis to identify issues with the current “top-down” government-led characteristic of idyllic countryside construction. The study finds that the core reason for construction problems in practice is the neglect of village self-organizing capacity and insufficient alignment with actual village needs in the “top-down” construction path. This can be addressed through nurturing “bottom-up” village self-organizing capacity and optimizing the characteristic idyllic countryside construction system and path.