The modernization process in the Liangshan Yi ethnic area has gone through the stages of industrialization,commercialization,urbanization, poverty alleviation,and rural revitalization.Each historical stage reflects different scenarios of population intellectual development.With the deepening modernization in the Yi ethnic area of Liangshan,the intellectual development of the Yi people has been continuously improved.Only when the economic and cultural types in the Liangshan Yi ethnic area are changed can the Yi population be truly integrated into modern civilization and thus a favorable situation is constructed to fit the intellectual development of the Liangshan population.This requires the state to take the lead to consciously promote the organic combination of the core Yi culture and modern elements, so as to promote the scientific modernization in the Liangshan Yi ethnic area and continuously improve the overall intellectual development of Liangshan population in the process of the modernization.