At present, the rural revitalization strategy is an inevitable requirement for promoting steady rural development and improving rural living standards, and industrial revitalization is the key to rural revitalization. Promoting high‐quality development of rural industries in the new era requires the use of new driving forces of the digital economy. However, there are still problems in the current development process of rural digital industry, such as imbalanced development of the digital economy, low level of development, lack of talent reserves, and incomplete industry sharing mechanisms. It is necessary to overcome development difficulties, fully develop and utilize the potential of the digital economy, and assistin the revitalization of rural industries. This article first studies the mechanism by which the digital economy empowers the revitalization of rural industries. Secondly, the practical challenges of the development of rural digital industry in China were analyzed based on the path of action. Finally, the implementation path for the revitalization of rural digital industry was proposed. Accelerate the construction of rural digital infrastructure, improve the mechanism for talent cultivation and industrial information sharing, in order to enhance the digital level of rural industries and achieve the revitalization of rural industries.