Dynamic Rural Poverty Changes by Regions: Current Status and Prospects

Since the reform and opening up, the rural economy in China’s eastern region has developed rapidly, while the rural economy in the central and western regions has developed slowly. On a national scale, the southern region economically grows faster than the northern region, and the eastern region economically grows faster than the western region. There are significant differences in economic development among the eastern, central, and western regions, which will inevitably affect the income and poverty of rural households in these regions. Based on the above economic reality, in this chapter, we divided the rural households into three types: rural households in the eastern region, rural households in the central region, and rural households in the western region to study the impact of economic growth and inequality on the poverty of rural households in these regions.