Abstract: Under the background of building a harmonious and stable society, the social function of sports culture demonstrates an ever-increasing role and social value. The country's social harmony and stability can't do without the harmony and stability of the frontier. Researching the relationship between sports culture and social harmony and stable development on border areas is an essential way of building a harmonious frontier society, promoting the stable development of the frontier and achieving our country’s strategic goals of “One Belt and One Road”, and has extremely important theoretical and practical significance for social harmony and stability and national security. Based on field investigation of the development of sports culture on Western Yunnan border areas, this paper summarized, analyzed and illustrated the relationship between sports culture and social harmony, stability and development in border areas in the hope of promoting the stability and development of border areas and contributing to the building of a harmonious society with Chinese characteristics.

Key words: Border Areas, Sports Culture, Social Harmony, Stable Development