As an integral part of the Party's policy of enriching the people and the content of promoting the in-depth reform of the rural economic system, poverty alleviation has been paid more and more attention by the whole Party and supported by the whole society. The Decision of the Central Committee on Further Strengthening Agriculture and Rural Work adopted by the Eighth Plenary Session of the 13th CPC Central Committee clearly pointed out that poverty alleviation should be done well for a long time. Therefore, how to do a good job in poverty alleviation is a big problem to be solved urgently. This paper tries to find out the causes of poverty in poor areas through the analysis of Songjiaya village, and puts forward some countermeasures.

Songjiaya Village, Xueping Town, Nanzhang County is a poor village with an annual per capita net income of only 2 14 yuan. It governs 7 villagers' groups, 1.25 households with 586 people.

There used to be a jingle here, which is a true portrayal of this place: "There are many stones in the mountains, so climb when you go out, eat by relief, and oil and salt depend on the chicken nest." After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, Songjiaya Village implemented the household contract responsibility system, and the land was divided into households for management, which mobilized farmers' enthusiasm for production and basically achieved more than self-sufficiency in grain. However, due to various reasons, it is still in a self-sufficient natural economic state, with extremely low productivity and poor farmers. According to statistics, the annual per capita net income of Songjiaya Village is 19.

1989 156 yuan. After two years of support from the Civil Affairs Bureau, 1 year 199 14 yuan is still 43.4% lower than the county's annual per capita net income of 493 yuan.

First, the cause analysis

The survey shows that the long-term poverty in poverty-stricken areas has both natural and social and historical reasons; There are both external and internal reasons. From the analysis of the poverty situation in Songjiaya village, we can see that the following six reasons are intertwined and mutually causal.

1, lack of natural resources. Songjiaya village is located in the mountainous area and has a superior geographical position.