China is divided on poverty and rural per capita annual net income per capita share of grain as the main basis. 1984 determined criteria, 200 yuan per capita annual net income of less than 150 kilograms of rations north, south rice less than 200 kg. Under this standard statistics, the national focus on contiguous poverty-stricken region has 14. In 1985, the National Bureau of Statistics 29 provinces nationwide survey to rural per capita net income of 200 yuan, the South's per capita ration of less than 200 kilograms, less than 175 kilograms per capita north as the standard. Calculation results, the national focus on contiguous poor area increased to 18. National poverty total area of about 4,000,000 square kilometers, accounting for 41.5% of the total area of the country, the country's poor population of about 120 million, accounting for 12.2% of the rural population. National total of 679 poverty-stricken counties. Which is a 434 counties in the central area delineated by 18 poverty-stricken areas, including national special interest loans and special funds to support the county 51; the rest of the county with the support of the central and local funds for the poor provinces. 18 belong to poor areas outside the 230 counties, including 51 counties to support the central and provincial support of 179 counties. 1994 National Bureau of Statistics show that China has reduced poverty to 70 million, will be basically out of poverty by the year 2000. The problem of long-term poverty and backwardness of the region, is increasingly becoming a huge obstacle to balanced regional development between China's national economy, steady growth, and therefore attention the Chinese government and the community, but also deeply concerned about the cause of many experts and scholars, with the close relative poverty United's "poor areas" is not only the study of other disciplines related to the study of demography, but also economics and sociology. These studies by the structure of the poor, scale, distribution, quality, resources, investment and other quantitative and qualitative analysis, and found problems. The reason these issues formation process and changes in the law, to predict the future trend of changes in poverty, and thus make relevant programs and approaches to develop guidelines for the parties concerned Government departments, the policy has its objective basis.
