Abstract: In the process of national park construction, facing the goal of ecological protection and economic development, China has been actively seeking ways to realize the coordinated development of community and national park. Therefore, the development of gateway community has always been the focus of scholars in the research of national park. Ability construction is closely related to the development of the community, and the community is an important topic of community development. This study focused on the Qinghai part of the Qilian Mountain National Park, conducted in-depth interviews to collect data, and used the method of grounded theory, in order to determine factors that affect the capability enhancing of national park gateway community, and summarize their logical relationship. The study summarized 38 initial concepts and 14 categories that contain seven main categories. Five core categories are refined, including strengthening community participation, fostering organizational capacity, cooperation network, institutional guarantee, livelihood expansion and transformation. The methods of enhancing community capacity are proposed from the aspects of scientific policy, management mechanism and talent nurturing, in order to hope that gateway communities could develop together with national parks.