Abstract: The "anti-ecological" of rural tourism is to a large extent the reflection of the in-coordination between human and land, so community participation is one of the best ways to solve it. On the basis of Mindong rural tourism resources, it can be divided into five types, namely ancient village town type, fresh landscape type, water fishing village type, leisure farm type and folk custom type. This paper analyzes the practical difficulties in the development from the following four aspects, such as lack of ecological responsibility, short ecological industry chain, lack of effective protection of ecological resources and inadequate expression of ecological characteristics. And it puts forward that ecological transformation and upgrading should be undergone with the participation of the community. It includes the concept of ecological plus, the construction of a beautiful ecological environment, the improvement of the ecological industrial chain and the injection of ecological creativity, which provides a reference for Mindong ecological transformation and upgrading of the rural tourism.