Annotation:::: This article focuses on modes of migration and examines possibilities for effectively constructing new rural communities and lifting mountain people out of poverty. According to the authors, there are over 15,000 natural villages scattering over every part of Lisui city in Zhejiang province. Those small-sized villages are mostly distributed in remote areas with hilly and mountainous terrain and intersecting ravines and gullies, and where living conditions and production potential are poor.After using the method of field research to investigate small-sized natural mountain villages, the authors find that migration is an important means of accessing economic activity as well as an effective way of alleviating poverty among mountain people. The process of gradient transfer of villagers from high and remote mountains contributes to population clustering and proves to be a very complicated and systematic project. Additionally, compensation policies and resettlement regulations help to promote such a migration.
