摘要：China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation of 2013 contributed to both rapid and major changes in rural areasof central and western China, particularly in Guizhou Province. These changes differed from the changes caused by theReform and Opening-up policy of the 1970s. Present research confirms statistically that the economic growth andliving standards were effectively improved by the Targeted Poverty Alleviation (TPA) activities. There has, however,been little research critically examining how the TPA activities changed the rural areas both socially and culturally. Thisstudy examines how TPA activities changed the rural areas. The researchers found the dramatic changes caused by TPAare concluded as economic, social and spatial restructuring: 1) Economic Restructuring: Village collective economy andfarmers’ cooperatives became more significant relative to households as the basic economic unit. Widespread landtransfer transformed farmers into workers. E-commerce became a significant platform extending the local ruraleconomies; 2) Social Restructuring: Family structure was divided deliberately to facilitate utilization of policy. Socialrelationships became more complex; and 3) Spatial Restructuring: The land transfer made the individual scattered familyfarms more standardized, altering traditional farming culture. Relocation and resettlement for poverty alleviationresulted in social inclusion dilemmas, potentially fracturing the traditions of cultural inheritance. In order to promoteeffectiveness of poverty alleviation, local culture based research was suggested to be intensified.
关键词：Targeted Poverty Alleviation; Economic Restructuring; Social Restructuring; Spatial Restructuring;Guizhou; China
