| Characteristic culture is a specific regional long-term formation of the unique culture. It has a strong regional features. Characteristic culture is the specific branding production and living of local residents and memory, and its difference, uniqueness, primordial, scarcity, no copy such cultural characteristics, showing a strong competitive advantage. There are many ethnic minorities in China, every nation has unique style characteristic culture, showing the local conditions and customs of a region, architectural style, values, the ways of thinking, religious beliefs. Especially in the context of economic globalization, countries culture convergence, cultural personality disappear, then the characteristic culture for the western region and a new type of urbanization in national regions play an important role in supporting and driving.Traditional pay attention to the speed of urbanization, and the new urbanization pay attention to quality, pay attention to promote the town’s inner being, to dig deeper into town of cultural resources, boost urbanization healthy and sustainable development. Yunnan is one of the most national characteristics of China,25ethnic minority culture on this piece of land show their own cultural characteristics. The characteristics of Yunnan culture has a special role in the new urbanization, relying on the characteristic culture construction and development of characteristic culture town, tourist town, is one of the realistic approach to the new urbanization. Was based on this view, this paper expounds the characteristics of cultural connotation, analysis the background of the new type of urbanization, this paper discusses the characteristic culture supporting role in constructing the new urbanization in national regions, the old town of Lijiang ancient city, Xinhua village, He shun town, the characteristics of three typical representative culture specific analysis of the supporting role of characteristic culture in Yunnan province urbanization construction, and from the visual Angle of culture, and puts forward a series of construction of the new urbanization.The future competition will be the cultural soft power of urbanization in the new competition. Therefore, in the new urbanization, we should pay attention to the protection and inheritance of traditional culture, the continuation of the historical trace of the town to shape the city character and image characteristics, highlight the cultural characteristics and avoid causing problems such as city disease, promote the healthy development of the new type of urbanization. |