Poverty Alleviation in Xundian Hui and Yi Autonomous County by Promoting Labor Migration

The transfer of rural population to urban areas is the inevitable result of China’s economic development, and going out to work is an important poverty alleviation model for poor areas to adapt to this historical trend. Studying its typical practices not only has practical guidance and reference for targeted poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation work, but also has important implications for how to rationally allocate regional population, resources, environment and economy. This paper investigates and explores the labor migration-promoting poverty alleviation model in Xundian Hui and Yi Autonomous County in the Wumeng mountainous area, a national concentrated and contiguous poverty-stricken area. On the basis of sorting out the leadership system, training methods, assistance ideas, working mechanism and poverty alleviation achievements, the income of 50 poverty-free households in 2018 was investigated and analyzed specifically. The results show that the poverty alleviation in Xundian County has achieved significant achievements both in macro and individual farmers, and it has played a decisive role in getting rid of poverty for households with migrant workers. In addition, the successful experience of Xundian County to increase income and get rid of poverty is sorted out, and the problems existing in this model are analyzed. It is believed that attention should be paid to the impact of labor migration on rural land use and citizenization of migrant workers.