Southwest region relying on prominent features，rich and diverse ethnic culture，regional and historical and cultural resources，reflect greater advantage and potential in the development of cultural tourism，festival exhibitions，traditional arts and crafts，performing arts and other cultural industries formats. Southwest has gradually formed a small city centered development process with an integration of the surrounding ecological resources，craft resources，ethnic cultural towns and villages and tourism scenic areas and spots clustered. Cultural tourism as the main body，a variety of different formats linkage development，will promote the transformation and upgrading from traditional economic mode of production in the southwest region. Southwest plays an important role in cultural trade and cooperation open to Southeast Asia and South Asia.