RESEARCHES ON THE CLASSIFICATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF POOR AREA IN CHINA
中国贫困地区类型划分及开发研究提要报告

Poverty and development are serious challenges the world faces now.Because of the natural condition, original base and the diffirent situation of the implementation of polices, disequilibrium situation of the country's economy still exists.Some areas have not yet lifted out of poverty.People's eating and wearing problem has not been completely solved.More than 40 million people are very poor in the country.According to the latesi information, there are all together 664 poor counties in China, excluding Tibet which still Jacks material, about 32 percent of the national total.Most of these areas are revolutionary base areas, areas of minorities, border regions, or mountain areas.The counties are classified in terms of the similarity of physical, social, and economic conditions; the similarity of critical obstacles physical, social, or economic to economic development, and development policies implemented. Six divisions and twenty-one subdivisions can be made as follows. ( 1 ) Loess Plateau Poor Areas; (2) Border Zone Between Eastern Plain and Western Mountain Areas. ( 3 ) Southwest Karst Mountain Areas; (4) Eastern Hill and Mountain Areas. ( 5 ) Qinghai-Tibet Mountain Areas; ( 6 ) Inner Mongolian-Xing Jiang Dry Areas.