Urban Poor Groups'Viability and the Policy Innovation

In abroad the definition of poverty is changed from focusing on external lack of materials and incomes to emphasizing on internal deprivation of capability. However, urban anti-poverty policy-making in China has not been adapted to this change, and still gives priority to government relief work, neglecting poor groups爷capacity-building and poverty-eliminating consciousness incentive. Therefore we should focus on constructing the self-reliance of urban poor groups, enhance their basic survival ability and improve their self-development ability by perceiving the poor groups as the foremost fighters in war on poverty, advancing their viability from the aspects of environment, opportunities and consciousness and innovating anti-poverty policies from the aspects of target, content and implementation.