| Unbalanced regional economic development is a problem which every country has to solve in the process of its economic development, only differs in the degree. There are many factors that can influence on the development of the regional economic, and factors are very complex, analysis the influence degree of various important factors to make policy recommendations to promote the development of economy has a great reference value. However, when it comes to the subject of regional economic development imbalances, domestic and foreign scholars have been study from these aspects such as capital, labor and technology to explanation, rarely from cultural factors behind these hidden in regional economic development in regional economic growth to the traditional economics theory to analyze the resulting in the lack of strong ability to explain. In view of this, this article on regional culture’s influence on the regional economic development as a center for research and analysis.This paper on the culture and regional culture generalizes the concept and connotation of definition and preliminary analysis of the regional culture influence mechanism of regional economic development and the new institutional economics perspective of regional culture’s influence on the regional economic development is mainly manifested in the following aspects: First, the region culture influence on formal institutional choice. Second, the regional culture’s influence on the local official system vicissitude. Third, the regional culture on the influence of the formal system. Regional culture through the role in economic development, the influence of the formal system due to the formal system is one of the important factors of regional economic development, and the choice of formal system, and execution are restricted by cultural factors and change. By theoretical analysis, we put the formal system is expressed as the function of cultural factors, to the economic development model, namely, to establish the model of economic development on the basis of culture, through modification of economic development model, we put the system as an endogenous variable into the model of economic development, to build the regional culture and regional economic development model to study the influence of regional culture on the regional economic development. Finally, the article on the basis of the theoretical model building, tourism, for example, using the data of 31 provinces in mainland China in 2013, according to index of the modified and using regression analysis, factor analysis, measurement methods, such as the empirical analysis of the influence of regional culture to the development of regional economy. The corresponding regional culture and that there was a positive correlation between the formal system and formal system there is a positive correlation relationship between regional tourism.Relevant conclusions of this paper is: regional culture and regional economic development, there is close relationship between regional culture in the process of regional economic development plays an irreplaceable role, promote the coordinated development between regional economy and regional culture, to develop the local economy, to narrow the gap in regional economy has a strong practical significance. And the related policy suggestion is to: to give full play to the regional culture to promote regional economic development, regional culture must be on full excavation, protection and inheritance; The regional culture merit to carry forward the economic ideas and values; Conform to the trend of The Times, the rational choice in regional cultural inheritance; Give full play to the personality feature of regional culture. |