铜在国民经济发展中占据重要地位，而我国的铜矿资源供给与需求矛盾仍然十分突出。西藏是我国铜矿资源最丰富的地区，科学合理地开发利用西藏地区的铜矿资源对于保证我国的铜矿可持续供应具有举足轻重的作用。本文详细总结了西藏铜矿资源的分布特征以及在西藏地区进行铜矿资源开发的优势和劣势，提出应坚持科学发展观，建设西藏地区主要成矿带铜矿绿色开发基地，加快铜矿资源的科学勘查和有序开发，正确处理资源开发与环境保护的关系，充分发挥铜矿资源开发所带来的经济、社会、环境效益，促进西藏社会的稳定发展，实现精准扶贫目标。

Copper resources play an important role in the development of national economy. However, there is a large gap between supply and demand of copper resources in China. Tibet is a province with the most abundant copper resources in China, so the scientific and rational exploitation of copper resources in Tibet plays a very important role in ensuring the sustainable supply of copper resources in China. This paper summarizes the distribution characteristics of Tibet’s copper resources and the advantages and disadvantages for exploiting copper resources in Tibet. It proposes that we should adhere to the concept of scientific development, construct green development bases for copper resources in major metallogenic belts in Tibet, accelerate scientific exploration and orderly development of copper resources, correctly handle the relation between resource development and environment protection, and give full play to the economic, social, and environmental benefits brought about by the exploitation of copper resources, to promote the steady development of Tibetan society and achieve the goal of targeted poverty alleviation.