Productive protection and directory protection，holistic protection has become an important way to protect the list of intangible cultural heritage in China. Since 2011，the Ministry of Culture has promulgated two batches of 100 national intangible cultural heritage productive protection base. Of which 29 are ethnic minorities intangible cultural heritage productive protection demonstration base. These demonstration bases play an important role in protecting the intangible cultural heritage of ethnic minorities in China and providing cultural products. But there are still narrow scope of protection，legal system behind and other issues. In the future protection of ethnic minorities in the productive protection，should be unified protection and use of the concept，adhere to the the principle of protection of the main，the development of the supplement. Adhere to the social and economic benefits of both development，for different categories of non-list to take different protection methods to protect predators in the demonstration base within the rights，and construction of legal protection system for productive protection.