This book offers comprehensive analysis for individual cases of poverty alleviation to facilitate respective in-depth key learnings and an overview of poverty alleviation strategies carried out in China. Best practices were selected from representative cases in China to demonstrate the development of different approaches in the poverty alleviation journey with collective stakeholders’ efforts – Government, Industry, Academia, and Research, plus the local stakeholders engaged in the rural development activities. Overseas cases are referenced to show the outcome of similar strategies as comparison with the consideration of regional specific conditions.

Through better understanding of the focal issues, areas and organizations – and their respective key challenges and solutions – there is the compilation for each case its analysis, comparative studies and SDG relevance. These aim at engaging the readers from institutes, governments, corporates, or social enterprises, to think about how to adopt the related SDG strategies. They also serve as the initiatives to facilitate potential cross-region and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

The book acts as the guide on how:

Poverty Reduction

is one of the key goals in SDGs – while solving this key challenge, multiple goals could be planned and tackled together to make an effective solution.

Multi-disciplinary strategies

are put in place, demonstrated via success stories and best practices. Key driving factors are identified with the consideration of the driving organization nature.

Stakeholder engagement

A system could be developed to engage different stakeholders in the society for industry development – and to avoid returning to poverty in the long term.

International cooperation

could be facilitated to create a poverty alleviation framework applicable across different regions.