Purpose/Significance Establishing and practicing the concept that clean water and green hills equal money was required at the 19th CPC National Congress. Resource conservation and environmental protection have been set as a basic state policy, and treating the eco-environment in the way we treat life was required at the congress too. The ecological resources of Tibetan areas in Sichuan province are rich, but the economic development there is relatively backward. It is necessary to develop green industry to realize the unification of development and protection in these areas.

Method/process This paper takes Ganzi County as a representative case to carry out a thorough analysis of green industry development in Sichuan Tibetan areas through literature review and theoretical analysis.

Result/conclusion It comes to the conclusion that green industry in Sichuan Tibetan areas has achieved initial results while some problems still exit, such as constraints of ecological capacity, inadequate use of folk culture, insufficient support of science and technology, limitation of society system and mechanism, lag of political construction, etc. Development of green industry in Sichuan Tibetan areas could be effectively promoted through following ways: overall planning of green industry, promoting the agricultural industrialization, promoting ecological compensation with the emphasis on green energy compensation, promoting reform and opening up policy, improving the grass-roots party organizations and so on.