Against the background of rural revitalization,it is incumbent upon us to nurture rural teachers with rural education devotions.A self-designed questionnaire survey was conducted on 2 500 normal university students’ devotions to rural education at A University,using exploratory factors,t-test and one-way analysis of variance to investigate their identification with rural education career.The results indicate that the overall level of rural educational devotions of normal university students are relatively high,but there are differences in gender, grade,ethnicity,and type of normal university students.Male students have a stronger motivation than female students to pursue a teaching career;third-year students have weaker rural education devotions;minority students have significantly stronger rural education devotions than Han students;public-funded students have slightly higher rural education aspirations than non-public-funded students.With regard to the above issues,strategies are proposed to tilt enrollment towards local rural students,to build a high-quality teaching staff,to develop a rural education curriculum system,and to improve rural living conditions and rural teachers’welfare.