The invention relates to an Ethernet ring protection switching method for a hybrid network. The method comprises the following steps: 1, establishing an Ethernet ring protection instance based on a virtual private network (VPN); and 2, controlling the mapping from VPN service to the Ethernet ring protection instance, wherein step 1 comprises the following concrete steps: 1.1, establishing the VPNservice; 1.2, judging whether the established VPN service is Ethernet ring service of the control type, if not, not carrying out processing, and otherwise, establishing the Ethernet protection instance (including adding the configuration information of the Ethernet protection instance, establishing a ring port of the Ethernet ring instance, and establishing the mapping from a VPN service group tothe instance; and 1.3, judging whether the configuration information of the Ethernet protection instance is successfully added, judging whether the ring port of the Ethernet ring instance is successfully established, and judging whether the established VPN service group is successfully mapped to the instance, if yes, judging that the Ethernet ring protection instance based on the VPN is successfully established.