In view of the main sticking points of rural food safety governance in practice, such as the hidden lack of grass-roots government, the limited governance ability and autonomy of village level organizations, the lack of food safety awareness and the virtual soft governance mechanism, this paper puts forward the soft governance model of promoting rural food safety, and points out that it is necessary to determine the territorial responsibility of the government and strengthen the governance function of rural food safety; Strengthen the capacity-building of food safety management and food safety publicity and education of village organizations; Build a soft governance mechanism for rural food safety, promote social cooperation, improve governance effectiveness, and make up for the shortcomings of the current hard governance of rural food safety.