Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, China’s rural poverty alleviation has achieved periodical progress, creating a great miracle in the history of poverty alleviation, and becoming the first country to complete the Millennium Developing Goals of poverty alleviation in the United Nations. At present, we are in a critical period of winning the battle against poverty and decisively developing a moderately prosperous society in all respects. By precisely figuring out the hard course of poverty alleviation in China in recent decades, concluding the experience of poverty alleviation and defining the key points for advancing the poverty alleviation work in the future, we are sure to get rid of poverty in the countryside and carry out the strategy of rural revitalization better.