Rural human settlement environment is an important part of the 13th Five-Year Plan and the National Beautiful Countryside Plan. Based on the background of rural revitalization strategy, taking Zhangye City as the research object ,16 evaluation indicators from four aspects: ecological environment, economic development, infrastructure and public service according to the basic principles of rural human settlement environment evaluation index selection were constructed. By using the entropy method, 16 indicators of system layer and index layer were comprehensively weighted to measure the development level of rural human settlement environment in Zhangye City from 2016 to 2020. The results are as follows.The development level of rural human settlements in Zhangye City presents a "W" shaped development trend, which has experienced four stages of descending - ascending - descending - ascending, with an overall upward trend. In Zhangye City, as an agricultural city, the intensity of use of mulch film is the most critical index affecting the development level of rural human settlements, and the recycling and utilization of mulch film has a high efficiency.The proportion of administrative villages that treat domestic sewage is relatively low, which indicates that Zhangye City has great defects in daily domestic sewage treatment, resulting in serious non-point source pollution of village environment. The weight of economic development indicators is relatively small, the main reason is that Zhangye City has a single rural economic income channel and has not formed a multi-industry integration development model.