Abstract: Agriculture and rural areas from production to life cannot without green, green is the basic color of “agriculture, rural areas and farmers”, green development is the only way to realize rural revitalization. To achieve the strategic goal of strong agriculture, beautiful rural areas, farmers rich must take the road of green development. Green finance and rural development had natural green attributes and requirements. Coordinated development of the two can promote the early realization of rural revitalization. This study adopted the grey correlation analysis method to empirically study the correlation degree between green finance and rural development, and reached the conclusion that green finance and rural development had a high correlation degree.

Key words: green finance, rural development, grey correlation