Yuxi Basin is one of the potential earthquake risk areas with high seismic frequency and intensity in Yunnan Province. In order to set up the “standard” structure model to be applied directly in earth quake prevention and disaster reduction, the authors used electrical resistivity tomography(ERT) to detect the electrical structure of mountain-basin transition zone in Yuxi Basin and Pudu River Fault which is buried in and goes through the western margin under the support of the Special Project for the Fundamental R&D of Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration. The results showed that both of the east and west branches of Pudu River Fault have the apparent dip direction of SE/E and apparent dip angle of 75°~80° in Yuxi Basin, which are slightly different from the results.