Purpose/SignificanceWest China is one of the main battlegrounds for the country to get out of poverty. The "13th five-year plan" is the key period for the west area to promote poverty alleviation wholly and deeply.

Method/ProcessSuccessful targeted poverty reduction should be accurate in confirming the object, the tasks and the strategies; goal orientation and guiding should be put into effect. This paper discusses the characteristics and contents of targeted poverty alleviation in different stages. It proposes some measues to evaluate the achievements of poverty reduction:key index method, benchmarking method and project management method, which make a set of evaluation system of "targeted poverty alleviation".

Results/ConclusionThis index system is designed with three levels of indicators, which cover 8 major aspects and 57 specific indicators. Such system is a good solution to judge poverty alleviation with assignment and quantification of the index.