To promote education for rural revitalization, Guizhou Minzu University and Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University organized a joint workshop on ‘Rural Revitalization of Baojing Village of the Dong Ethnic Group, Guizhou’. It aimed to explore innovative approaches that can support education in rural scenario and thereby facilitate the reform of contemporary education of human settlements related disciplines. It was found from this pilot study that a cross-disciplinary education mode and a multi-disciplinary education platform that syntegrates (synthesizes and integrates) a wide range of education resources could effectively support the education for rural revitalization. The key challenge of this education reform is to change the attitude from ‘knowledge accumulation’ to ‘self-awareness and value improvement’. By designing a learner-centred research-led syntegrative learning and teaching process, the workshop carried out multi-dimensional immersive learning and teaching activities, including ‘learning in the village’, ‘learn from the village’, ‘learn for the village’, ‘let the village learn’, which could facilitate rural revitalization.