Abstract: With the decline of the degree of self-organization in rural society, the difficulty of collective decision-making is a tough problem in the governance of rural public affairs. The field theory of multi-agent cooperative governance provides a new way to solve this problem for the multi-agent cooperative governance mechanism of rural public health can coordinate the relationship among different governance bodies and enable each body to show its role and function in response to rural public health crisis in different forms. Response practice to the COVID-19 pandemic shows that under the guidance of field theory of multi-agent cooperative governance village committees and social forces such as non-governmental organizations, village elites and ordinary villagers can coordinate and cooperate effectively with the grassroots government organizations in rural areas, and each body has demonstrated great resilience in dealing with public health crisis events.