ABSTRACT
This paper researches on the rural economic transition in the context of modernization based on the perspective of economic anthropology. On the basis of the analysis in rural China and its limitations, this thesis reviews the theory and practice of rural economic transformation. It comes to the conclusion that the main body of rural economic and social transformation is the peasants, the inner basis is industrialization and urbanization, and small-scale farming must to be changed in production methods and lifestyle. The transformation of economy in the Chinese ethnic minorities’ villages is restricted by reforms guided by state and market. This paper analyzes the national rural economic characteristics, the transformation of the stage, transformation of the barrier and the direction, pointing out that the transformation of rural economy in Ethnic Regions is not only the standard and mode, but should be diversified and the direction of development way.