| Rural poverty in ethnic regions is the key and difficult points of anti-poverty work, related to the smooth realization of building a well-off society in China. Long anti-poverty policy of our country is mainly centered around the low income of the poor, whether it is eliminating poverty, or later development-oriented poverty reduction, anti-poverty policy focus on poverty to improve production and living conditions, ignore the root cause of the poor, poor concrete capabilities is insufficient.This article is based on AmartyaSen’s theory of concrete capabilities, AmartyaSen advocated the causes of poverty is not a revenue problem, improve the concrete capabilities of impoverished population needs to be realized by five kinds of freedom and social security in, AmartyaSen’s five species belong to the social opportunity means freedom and protection of the security. In China’s minority poverty area, after the founding of New China continuing practice of poverty,the problem of poverty has been greatly improved, but there are some new problems and new phenomena, these new problems and phenomena are difficult to be solved effectively when relying solely on poverty alleviation through development and other means, must change the anti-poverty ideas, will key anti-poverty focus to the poor capability of ascension. Through the development of rural social security, improve the ability of resisting the risk of poverty, the poverty population from disease, senile risk plight of liberation, freedom and life of those people have cherished the reason, improve the concrete capabilities will also raise the income level of poverty population.This paper is divided into six parts, the first part as the research background of the significance of the research at home and abroad,the concept of the two core that poverty and concrete capabilities. The second part describes the current situation of poor ethnic minority areas, and based on viable theory of AmartyaSen’s concrete capabilities to analyze the causes of poverty minority areas. The third part of our country since the founding of the anti-poverty process can be divided into three stages, phases of policy review summarized, points out the shortage of the achievements and existing at various stages. The fourth part discusses between the minority areas to improve the rural social security development and poverty population capability the connection of the two, the rural social insurance development and rural social assistance development two aspects, respectively, the development of rural social security is able to effectively enhance the capability of poverty, which plays a role in anti poverty practice. The fifth part based on the above discussion, Dali, Yunnan Province as an example to empirical research, through case studies in Dali, Binchuan××village explained the role of social protection for the poor development of viable rural capacity building and out of poverty. Finally, comments and suggestions related to the ability of viable from the perspective of the development of national social security in rural areas, including the aspects of the new rural cooperative medical insurance, new rural social pension insurance, medical aid and rural minimum living security systemetc. |