Based on 388 agricultural invention patents licensed in Guangdong, the characteristics of patent licensing network for technological innovation to serve the rural revitalization in Guangdong are analyzed by using social network analysis method. The conclusions are as follows: ①The source of transferred patents for technological innovation to serve the rural revitalization in Guangdong has obvious geographical proximity characteristics, and the number of transferred patents in Guangdong Province is the largest. The distribution of transferred patents has obvious characteristics of economic proximity. The economically developed core area of the Pearl River Delta has the largest number of transferred patents. ② Individuals, private enterprises, universities, scientific research institutions and high-tech enterprises are the main bodies to transfer patents.Private enterprises and high-tech enterprises are the main participants to transfer patents, and also are the important forces to promote technological innovation and serve the rural revitalization in Guangdong. ③The patent licensing network of technological innovation serving the rural revitalization in Guangdong presents a certain "small world" characteristics, and the network structure shows an obvious trend of "large dispersion and small aggregation"; Individuals, private enterprises, universities, scientific research institutions and high-tech enterprises play an important role in enhancing the breadth and depth of the network.