Abstract: Yunnan is an emerging province of tilapia production, which has a great increase production and an obvious growth, but has few research reports. In order to provide reference for the development of industry in the province and even the country, this paper mainly introduces the development course and status of tilapia industry in Yunnan Province, including production, technology, circulation, consumption, trade and supply and demand. At the same time, authors suggests to choose efficient breeding mode, expand domestic demand, improve the added value of deep processing of tilapia, popularize the cooking methods for multi-channel and multi-faceted development.