Targeted Poverty Alleviation in China: The Policy Perspective of the Communist Party of China

China’s achievements in poverty alleviation and reduction are obvious and it is necessary to summarize as well as rethink the experience of it. In discussing poverty-alleviation policies over time before 2012 and targeted poverty alleviation started in 2012, it is clear that the leading and decisive role of the CPC is the key to understanding China’s poverty alleviation, for both achievements and challenges. Targeting is essential at an early stage to get the targeted poverty alleviation project moving, but it must give way to the organic integration of poverty-vulnerable people into social-economic reproduction if a secure foundation for the alleviation of poverty is to be laid. To solve the problem of poverty, there should be an effective combination of the CPC’s leadership in rural governance and the inherited autonomy of farmers, the true and dominant driving force of China’s rural development.