Firstly, to adjust the national poverty line, to identify rural poverty population over
again, and to establish anti-poverty strategic steps according to the new poverty line. Box 1
lists the three schemes to estimate rural poverty population. Scheme A is the current national
poverty line; scheme B set poverty line on per capita income of 1,000 yuan; in scheme C the line
is per capita income of 1,500 yuan. When scheme B is adopted, the estimated rural poverty
population is 100 million, between the estimation of the World Bank and the national poverty line;
when scheme C is adopted, the estimated rural poverty population is 240 million, very close to the
estimation made by the World Bank. We suggest that scheme B is currently adopted, and then
transiting from scheme B to scheme C gradually. According to scheme B, current rural poverty
population of China is about 100 million. Effective measures should be taken to decrease this part