Abstract: Since the 18th National Congress, the Party Central Committee and the State Department have carried out toplevel strategic designing for alleviation of rural poverty. Targeted poverty alleviation has major realistic significance to China's economic and social development,and profound theoretical significance to the construction and improvement of China's poverty alleviation system. Currently, studies on poverty alleviation are mainly focused on its connotation, predicament, causes of problems, solutions, experience and lessons etc., and have laid foundation for further researches. We hold that further studies should be made on the value orientation, connotation direction, perspective conversion, system optimization and grassroots governance in poverty alleviation. Only with continuing advancement in theoretical studies on targeted poverty alleviation,can we promote the practice.

Key words: targeted poverty alleviation, means of anti-poverty, ways of poverty alleviation, practice of anti-poverty, top-level design