The success of bilingual education has opened up a new road for the development of ethnic education. First of all, bilingual education has brought changes in concepts and consciousness to ethnic education. Bilingual education aims at cultivating talents who meet the needs of social development in the new era. Through bilingual teaching, the shortcomings and defects of single teaching are made up. Secondly, bilingual education enriches the forms of ethnic education and accumulates successful experience in running schools. Bilingual teaching is a reform of traditional education, from monolingual teaching to bilingual teaching. Bilingual education has found a way to run ethnic education with high quality and high efficiency. Although there are still some problems in bilingual education, especially in rural areas, the quality of bilingual graduates in previous years has made great progress compared with traditional education, students' professional knowledge and ability have been significantly improved, and their social adaptability has also been greatly improved. Thirdly, strengthening bilingual education in minority areas from an early age has a positive effect on the formation of national unity and historical identity. Learning to be a patriotic person and love the motherland is the core of the Chinese national spirit. Finally, we should inherit the successful idea of "multiculturalism" of ethnic minorities in China tradition. The excellent traditional cultures of different nationalities constitute the cultural diversity of the Chinese nation. Protecting and developing the excellent traditional culture of ethnic minorities is of great significance for promoting mutual understanding, mutual exchange, common economic development and political equality, and finally realizing the great unity of the Chinese nation.