The national policy regulation and guidance to minority nationality language translation is an important part of Chinese national language service. The paper analyses, from a diachronic perspective, the research results on minority nationality language translation in doctoral dissertations, journal articles, national social science projects and Ministry of Education projects by investigating their percentage, program categories, discipline distribution, research foci, output forms and geographic distribution. On the basis of these investigations, the paper tries to summarize the problems reflected in minority nationality language translation and its study and related issues of national policy guidance.