Abstract: Hollow village is a phenomenon of rural regional system degeneration resulting from the rapid urbanization and non-agricultural population, which leads to waste or inefficient utilization of the rural land resources, and severely hampers the sustainable development of rural economy and society. The author took an example of Caidai to demonstrate the hollow village renovation project. On the basis of surveying natural conditions, social and economic situations and present situation of land use, the renovation project was carried out in the village for demolition of abandoned houses and material treatment, land formation, farmland irrigation improvement, field road construction, farmland protection and ecological environment maintenance. As a result, the effective land use area in Caidai was increased by 14.34 hm2, preliminarily formed the renovation technology concerning the above aspects and provided references for further renovation of hollow villages in hilly area.