编者按贫穷是当今世界面临的最严峻的挑战之一。联合国的数字表明,有10亿的世界人口目前仍生活在贫困线以下,他们是世界社会动荡不安的重要因素。在中国,经过多年的脱贫工作,使数亿人实现温饱,走向富裕,目前,仍有7017万贫困人口,这些人口主要集中在中西部地区,尤其是自然条件恶劣的西部地区和边疆地区。他们的贫困程度更深,脱贫的成本更高,难度 Editor’s Note Poverty is one of the most serious challenges facing the world today. The United Nations figures show that one billion of the world’s people are still living below the poverty line and that they are an important factor in the social unrest in the world. In China, after years of work on poverty alleviation, hundreds of millions of people have become rich and have enough food and clothing. At present, there are still 70.17 million poor people who are mainly concentrated in the central and western regions, especially in the poor western areas and border areas. Their poverty level is deeper and the cost of getting out of poverty is higher and more difficult