Abstract: Using the methods of literature and logical analysis, the paper analyses and discusses the hot issues in the academic researches of China's national minority sports in recent years. The paper believes that the sports academic research fields and contents of China's national minority are rich with abundant research results in recent years especially from the perspective of sociology and culturology; there exists an insufficient relation between the researches and social reality in theoretical and empirical researches, leading to an deficiency of research in the value of existence; the researches of minority sports culture focus mainly on the inheritance and protection of intangible cultural heritage as well as the political and cultural function of " national cohesion " and " cultural identity ".

Key words: national minority sports, sport culture, academic research