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While China enjoys the distinction of being the first country to have achieved the millennium development goals, the country faces many problems and challenges, including staggering income inequality, continuing poverty among some population and difficulties in realizing sustainable development. In this book the author looks closely at the poverty-reduction policies that have been introduced by the Chinese government over the years, paying special attention to their background, substantive contents, implementation and effects on both the macroscopic and microscopic levels. In addition, the book devotes some space to discussions of such important topics as development programs in contiguous poor areas, precision-targeted poverty alleviation, and international cooperation in poverty reduction.