《中国农村扶贫：政策变迁、未来挑战与政策启示》

本期导读：

本文首先回顾了中国农村改革和反贫困的历史，然后结合新中国扶贫开发工作经历的六个阶段，分析了扶贫开发的相关政策体系、机制创新和未来挑战。最后，提出了具体反贫困措施并强调加强贫困地理学研究的重要性。

Poverty alleviation in rural China: policy changes, future challenges and policy implications

Yansui Liu, Yuanzhi Guo, Yang Zhou (pp. 241-259)

Keywords: China, Future challenges, Policy changes, Rural reform, Targeted poverty alleviation strategy

Type: Research paper

Purpose

Poverty alleviation is a global challenge. Human society has never ceased to fight against poverty. China was once the developing country with the largest rural poor population in the world. Remarkable achievements have been made in China’s antipoverty program over the past decades, shaping a unique poverty reduction strategy with Chinese characteristics. The purpose of this paper is to first review the history of China’s rural reform and antipoverty, and then analyze the related policy systems, mechanism innovations and future challenges in poverty alleviation and development. At last, some specific policy implications were provided.

Design/methodology/approach

Literature on China’s antipoverty history was reviewed and mechanism innovations on targeted poverty alleviation strategy were investigated.

Findings

Along with the deepening of the rural reform, the poverty alleviation and development in new China have undergone six stages, and experienced a transformation fromrelief-oriented to development-oriented poverty alleviation. The object of poverty alleviation has gradually targeted with a transformation from poor counties/areasto villages/households, and the effectiveness of poverty alleviation is also gradually improved. However, the increase in the difficulty of antipoverty, fragile ecological environment, rapid population aging and rural decline poseschallenges to the construction of a well-off society in an all-round way in China. Specific antipoverty measures were put forward based on the investigation. Finally, the authors emphasize the importance of strengthening the study of poverty geography.

Originality/value

This study investigates the history of China’s antipoverty policy and analyzes the future challenges for implementing targeted poverty alleviation policy. These findings will lay a foundation for the formulation of China’s antipoverty policies after 2020, and provide experience for poverty alleviation in other developing countries around the world.