Objective To find out the rate,type and cause of anemia of 6 to 24 months old infants from Yunnan Drung minority area,and to provide a scientific basis for nutrition package taking of "Yunnan poor areas children's nutrition improvement project" and the prevention anemia measures. Methods Using cluster samping method,the vein blood of local area 6~24 months old infants collected,and analysis was detected serum ferritin (SF) by sysmex-21N blood cell analyzer,the SEBIA capillarys 2 flex piercing hemoglobin electrophoresis analyzer was used for hemoglobin electrophoresis,the BIO-RAD CFX96 PCR was used to diagnose thalassemia gene.Finally,all data were carried on the statistical analysis. Result Local infant anemia incidence rate was 54.2% (65/120),the major anemia type was mild anemia,wich cell morphology was in cellule low pigment based (accounted for 84.2%),SF lack was 57.5%,Thalassemia was 0%. Conclusions The anemia incidence rate is more higher among 6~24 months infant of Drung minority.The major type of anemia was iron deficiency anemia,that is extraordinary important guiding for taking the nutrition package.