Currently, rural China is committed to constructing beautiful countryside and promoting ecological progress. However, this process is accompanied with a distinct misconception that eco–countryside construction only serves as a solution to rural environmental pollution and a tool for ecological progress, instead of a strategy for the innovation and development of the Chinese economy. China’s eco–countryside construction concerns its future economic development and transformation, as well as the improvement of the rural environment. This eco–countryside construction should be supposed to be a great strategy to boost China’s ecological progress. It is designed to bring about new economic drivers and rural prosperity. From a philosophical perspective, this paper reviews China’s eco–countryside construction, specifies its strategic value to economic development, and practical significance to the innovation of the Chinese economy.