It’s universally acknowledged that reading courses are beneficial to shaping pupils’ reading behavior and cultivating their reading literacy. In terms of the relatively weak quality of rural education, it is necessary to investigate the implementation of reading courses in rural primary schools. Based on a questionnaire survey of more than 1000 primary school teachers in six counties of Yunnan and Guizhou Province, our research has witnessed that the teaching quality of extracurricular reading in rural areas is uneven, the issue of which deserves attention. For one thing, some teachers are weak in in-depth understanding and sufffcient teaching methods of reading courses. For another, rural students lack the awareness of independent reading, good reading habits and reading methods. Furthermore, there still need some improvement in reading resources and environment.