KEYWORDS Development Study. Interphase Operational Principle. Minority Areas. Policy Proposals. Theoretically Rethinking ABSTRACT The theories and methods of economic anthropology have made great contributions in the development studies in China, especially to the development studies for the minority areas during the course of China's economic development. When one seriously studies Professor Yang's theory of interphase operations one can easily identify that the interphase operational development model is unique in terms of designing the best development policies in the Western China, where the minorities are concentrated. This paper probes and summarizes the path model of localizing economic anthropology with Chinese characteristics by examining Yang's interphase operating principle model from different perspectives.