national bureau of statistics nbs china statistical abstract both the nature of rural poverty and the instruments of poverty alleviation differ from previous phases therefore the povertyalleviation strategy emphasised targeting households and helping the poor through the social security system rather than through regional development programmes in recent years dibao programme has been piloted in rural areas in order to set up a safety net for the poor in rural china in the chinese government raised the rural poverty line significantly which means that the government s povertyalleviation efforts are going to cover more lowincome people including rural poor in the dibao programme table