Abstract:Poverty is a problem every nation should cope with in the course of its development, and it's no exception to China. To solve the problem, China has adopted strategies of targeted poverty alleviation with respect to different forms of poverty, such as poverty alleviation through relocation, through industry, and through education, etc. Among them, relocation is a strategy for resource-constrained poverty alleviation. This paper bases on an on-the-spot survey of sampled three counties and one city in Sichuan Province, which focuses on the following aspects: arrangements for the relocation, disposal of the previous arable land and allocation of new arable land, farmers' employment and their income sources, and government's follow-up policies, and discovers several problems with the current relocation poverty alleviation work: the government's dominant role and other social forces' low involvement, cases of wasted arable land, industries homogenized and lack of growth potential, some relocated farmers' mentality of dependence. Then this paper proposes corresponding solutions.