Rural and Urban Poverty Calls for Equal Treatment

During recent years, along with the deepening of reform and opening up to the outside world, China’s poverty problem has gradually changed from a problem of rural poverty to the co-existence of rural and urban poverty. In this article, the authors review the existing poverty standards and overall poverty situation in China, and assess the performance of the state’s current anti-poverty policies. In view of the main problems in existing anti-poverty policies, the authors suggest the coordinated development of urban and rural areas. Through establishing unified poverty standards, monitoring systems and anti-poverty policies, equal emphasis will be given to poverty alleviation in both areas. And the social security and employment systems in both urban and rural areas will be coordinated.