Research On How Targeted Poverty Alleviation Policy Affects Rural Households Livelihood In Gannan Tibetan Area

As a global problem,poverty is highly concerned by governments and scholars from all over the world.The problem of poverty is related to the survival and development of the poverty-stricken population,and is related to the economic development and social stability of a region or a country.With the rapid development of China's economy and society,China's poverty alleviation work has made remarkable achievements.However,China still has more than 70 million poor people,distributed widely,mainly concentrated in contiguous poor areas and 6 provinces(regions)where the most people are minorities.The Gannan Tibetan areas is not only belong to the contiguous poor areas,but also belong to one of the 6 provinces(regions)where the most people are minorities.Therefore,it is of great significance to study the effects of targeted poverty alleviation policy on households livelihood in Gannan Tibetan areas.Xiahe country in Gansu province belongs to the contiguous poor areas,the local ecological environment is fragile,the economic,culture education,skills and other conditions are relatively backward,which makes the area has more and widely spread poor population,and the causes of poverty trends to be very complex.The problem of poverty is always closely linked to family livelihoods.This paper from the perspective of the theory of sustainable livelihoods,focus on family livelihood condition,compared and analyzed poor family and lifted family out of poverty of family livelihood condition.The results show that the dependence of the farmers on natural environment is still high in the fragile ecological environment,and the ability of farmers and herdsmen have limitations to obtain livelihood resources and make use of it.Data shows that,lifted family out of poverty has more choices compared to poor family livelihood,and their dependence in natural environment on is not too high.However,to improve farmers and herdsmen's ability of obtaining the livelihood and their self-awareness is key to break the livelihood development limitations.On the situation of the livelihood capital,lifted family out of poverty has better endowments and risk resisting ability than the poverty family.Under the background of national poverty alleviation policy support,lifted family out of poverty is more positive and more capable to adjust their livelihood strategies and farming methods,to expand family income channels,and to make full use of national support policy than poor family livelihood,these are the performances of this ability.The study also found that the lower cultural quality and the excessive dependence on traditional culture of a single way of faring lead to high livelihood vulnerability of herdsmen.While poor households depend only on a single farm income,makes the family income fluctuates with the market price's changes,which resulted the poor households have lower ability to resist risks than lifted family out of poverty.Therefore,to ensure the stability of the income of farmers and herdsmen and broaden the family income channels become the key of getting rid of poverty.