Abstract:China has made historic achievements in poverty alleviation, creating a miracle in the human history of poverty reduction. The important reasons for the success of poverty alleviation lie in the major poverty alleviation characteristics such as targeted poverty alleviating strategies, jointed efforts for poverty alleviation, and the development-oriented poverty alleviation layout. Rich experience of adherence to the centralized leadership of the Communist Party of China, to the pov- erty alleviation system with Chinese Characteristics, and to the full play of the advantages of the socialist system with Chi- nese characteristics has been testified. The realization of the strategic goals of rural revitalization needs experience from poverty alleviation, which will be of great value to the efforts of rural revitalization. Its major progresses in the improve- ment of rural development system, steady advancement in rural modernization, and deepened reform in rural governance provide solid guarantee for the rural revitalization strategy. On the occasion of the centennial of the founding of the Party, it is time to review the course of poverty eradication in the new era and sum up according experiences, which not only pro- vide theoretical argumentation for eradicating relative poverty, but also provide empirical guidance for the overall promotion of rural revitalization.