Abstract: Under the background of the rural revitalization, considering the factors of rural leisure tourism resources, environment, economy and society, the evaluation index system of sustainable development of rural leisure tourism resources is established with the development of rural leisure tourism resources, the quality of rural leisure tourism environment, the development of rural leisure tourism economy and the development of rural leisure tourism society taking Xinyang City as an example, the sustainable development of rural leisure tourism resources is evaluated. The results show that: the comprehensive evaluation of the sustainable development of rural leisure tourism resources in Xinyang belongs to the strong sustainable development level, and the probability of strong sustainability is 43.03%. According to the evaluation factors, the sustainable development of rural leisure tourism resources in Xinyang belongs to the strong sustainable development level in terms of the development elements of rural leisure tourism resources. The membership value of strong sustainable development is 0.340. The environmental quality of rural leisure tourism, the economic development of rural leisure tourism and the social development of rural leisure tourism belong to the level of sustainable development. The degree values were 0.310, 0.513 and 0.685, respectively. The main factors affecting the sustainable development of rural leisure tourism resources in Xinyang are: the popularity of rural landscape, the singularity of rural landscape, the treatment rate of rural domestic sewage, the proportion of rural environmental protection investment, the proportion of rural leisure tourism income in GDP, and the per capita disposable income of rural leisure tourism residents.