The invention belongs to the technical field of reflection systems, and specifically relates to a circularly-polarized tuning modulator based on a tunable metasurface and a design method thereof. The circularly-polarized tuning modulator is mainly composed of an upper microstrip conduction band layer, a middle dielectric plate and a lower metal grounding plate. The upper microstrip conduction band layer is an electric brush structure and is mainly composed of a circular electric resonance (ELC) structure, a bias circuit and a PIN diode. The circular electric resonance (ELC) structure is composed of an upper semicircular arm, a lower semicircular arm, an arc intermediate opening, central vertical arms and intervals. By controlling the on-off state of the PIN diode, the switching from a turning transition function to a turning maintenance function and the switching from a turning hybridization function to the turning maintenance function are realized for the circularly-polarized tuning modulator. According to the invention, two or more function devices are integrated on one plate, the manufacturing cost is lowered, the efficiency and the reusability are improved, the circularly-polarized tuning modulator is realized without a multi-layer torsion chiral structure, and the circularly-polarized tuning modulator is simple in structure, small in size, low in loss, wide in frequency band and light in weight.