改革开放尤其是西部大开发战略实施以来,西部民族地区经济在构建性和涌现性的共同作用下,于特定的时空背景下形成一定的发展路径,并体现出明显的演化轨迹。文章以路径演化为视角,从西部民族地区经济发展的实践出发,重点阐述了现阶段西部民族地区经济发展的短期资源优势困境、政策偏失性路径锁定、比较优势产业刚性陷阱等问题;并提出了新时期西部民族地区经济发展路径战略选择,旨在为西部民族地区经济发展寻求理论支持与实践引导。 Since the implementation of the policy of reform and opening up, especially the strategy of developing the west, the economy in the western minority areas, under the combined effect of constructiveness and emergence, has formed a certain path of development under a specific time and space environment and has shown a clear evolutionary trajectory. Based on the practice of economic development in western ethnic regions, the article focuses on the short-term predicament of resource advantages, the policy of non-compliance and the rigid trap of comparative advantages in the economic development of ethnic regions in western China. The strategic choice of the path of economic development in the western minority areas in the new period seeks theoretical guidance and practical guidance for the economic development in the western minority areas.