Educational informatization is an important content and main symbol of education modernization, and is the only way to realize education modernization. The development of educational informatization in ethnic minority areas is an important measure to solve the difficult problems restricting the development of education in China and promote the reform and innovation of education. However, in the process of the rapid development of education informatization in ethnic minority areas, the shortcomings and deficiencies are also exposed. Investigate its reason, in the process of education informatization development, in the short term completed the institutional construction and reform, but the education informatization system, the main ability and willingness and education informatization of social culture construction action delay, dislocation or lag, the ideal state of education informatization construction, system state and running status between the gap, namely “fall”. During the 14th Five-year Plan period, the main task should be the “distance” between bridging system, subject and culture to promote the healthy development of education informatization in the western ethnic areas.