To further promote the realization of the value of regional cultural resources in the economic and social development of the Yellow River Basin and give full play to their contribution to the local economic development, based on combing and analyzing the following representative studies home and abroad such as cultural capital, the relationship between cultural capital and economic growth and high-quality economic development of the Yellow River Basin, this study proposed new ideas and methods for the in-depth development of follow-up related researches on exploring the effective paths for the provinces of the Yellow River Basin to accelerate the formation of new driving forces for economic growth based on the perspective of cultural capital.