Regarding China ’ s ethnic minor-ities’ economic development , a basic path to de-velop characteristic industries , depends , at the least, on their rich natural resources .However, the natural resources rights of the ethnic autono-mous regions prescribed in the Constitution and the law are not actually guaranteed .The ethnic auton-omous regions have not actually enjoyed the specif-ic right to independent development and utilization of their natural resources .The state also does not provide a reasonable compensation during the process of exploitation of the resources;and the e-conomic growth and the upgrading of the industrial structure essentially have not changed . Once the traditional natural resources are used up , the con-sequences are unthinkable .