The Research On Poverty Alleviation Relocation Of Laiyuan County

Poverty has always been a challenge to governments around the world, how to makepeople get rid of poverty and live a prosperous life is the goals that governments pursuitunceasingly. As the largest developing country in the world, Chinese government pay moreattention to the poverty problems. Since the reform and opening up, Chinese governmentinvested a lot of manpower, material resources, financial resources to poverty alleviationwork and has achieved remarkable results，the number of people living in poverty by250million in1978down to128million in2011，the poverty rate from30%down to9.5%.But what should be noticed is that, so many poor people and polarization between the richand the poor make China’s anti-poverty task remains arduous. In the process ofanti-poverty, regional poverty alleviation, poverty alleviation through industrialization,counterpart support poverty alleviation and other forms were taken according to thedifferent regions’ situation. For harsh natural conditions mountain counties, it is difficult tosolve the poverty status through local poverty alleviation, the relocation of povertyalleviation mode is adopted. Laiyuan is a mountainous area county, levels of poverty isserious. Relative to the local poverty alleviation, the relocation of the poverty alleviationcan obtain better effect. Since2003, more than9000people moved out from theuninhabitable mountain of Laiyuan. But, there are still50thousand poor people livingin remote mountain areas, relocation task is very hard. This paper focuses on the analysisof current situation and the willingness of Laiyuan county population to relocate, so as tofind the local relocation work problems and provide countermeasures for the poormountain areas’ population to relocate like Laiyuan and Hebei province.Based on the review of domestic and abroad research, this paper mainly studied thefollowing problems by using a combination of theoretical and empirical methods: Plan torelocate of Laiyuan County in2020; Past practice and the problems of the relocation; Thesituation of people’s willingness to relocate and the influencing factors.According to the study, we got the following conclusions:(1) Age of the poor, Levelof education, Family members working conditions, Family size, Household income level,The main source of income, Distance of residence from school and whether any school-agechildren had a significant impact on the willingness of the poor to relocate.(2) Per capitaarable land area of the poor family, Drinking water safety situation of residence， Convenient traffic conditions didn’t have a significant impact on the willingness of thepoor to relocate.Based on the above results, the paper puts forward some suggestions:(1)Providestechnical training to lower levels of education poverty;(2) Improve financing mechanismsof relocation;(3)Rational planning of existing land use;(4) Improve the education systemand medical security system for migration;(5) Improve the integrity of relocation.Innovations:(1) Existing research on poverty alleviation and development, mostly interms of poverty alleviation models, methods and so on, while few studies on povertyalleviation relocation. In this paper, the research on relocation can make up for the lack ofrelevant research;(2) Based on the investigation of the population planning to relocate inLaiyuan County, this paper using Logit model to analyze the effect of various factors ofpoverty population relocation willingness.