Going out to work and making money out of one’s homeland is a new trend,especially in the countryside of Chinese western ethnic mi-norities’ areas. The Hualong Muslim Autonomous County in Qinghai province is a model of the Labor Transfer in the western China. By Jun.2011 there were over 90000 people going out to make money which accounts for 43% of the county’s population. In such a large transfer of labor force,are there some ethnic features? By the first field study in a Tibetan village and two Muslim villages in Hualong county of Qinghai province,the author observed that in spite of living in the same county. There are obviously different features between Tibetan and Muslim on gonging out to work,such as the area, the season,the industries and the type of work they take due to the differences in language and religious belief. But the two ethnic villagers of both verify that the cultural feature exercise profound influences upon their own life in the age of globalization.%外出务工、出门挣钱是近年来我国西部民族地区，尤其是农村出现的新趋势。青海省化隆回族自治县可以说是我国西部劳动力转移的典范县，2011年6月底就实际转移劳动力9万余人约占县人口的43%。如此大规模的劳动力转移，是否呈现一些族裔文化特征？通过对化隆县藏族 A 村及回族二村主要生计活动的初次实地调研，我们发现，尽管共居于同一县域，都外出务工，但由于语言、信仰等不同，当地藏族、回族在外出务工的地域、时间，从事的行业及具体工种方面均呈现了鲜明特征。在这个物与人全球流动的时代，双方以各自不同的主要生计方式共同印证了文化特征对其生活全面而深刻的影响。
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