Annotation:::: The paper focuses on mountain migration related to poverty alleviation, and examines some of the problems arising in the process of relocating mountain migrants and city government proposals for increasing the pace of relocation work. According to the report of the 17th National People’s Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), China will aim to “basically eliminate absolute poverty” by 2020. Farmers living in a remote mountain area of Ganzhou city, Jiangxi province found it difficult to rely on their own capacity to get out of poverty or even to secure basic needs such as food and clothing due to the constraints of local natural conditions. They represent a genuinely vulnerable group, urgently needing services from governments at all levels.Using the methods of documental study and on-site investigation, the authors find that since the implementation of the poverty-alleviation-oriented relocation project in 2004, the work of relocation in the city has achieved positive results. The project has played an active role in balancing rural and urban development, lowered the costs of poverty alleviation and administrative business, protected the eco-environment, and ensured comprehensive, coordinated, and sustainable development of the city. At the same time, there are some problems in the relocation work, including the need for improving the current migration policy, the low ratio of overall relocation of migrants and the after-effects of such relocation, and the lack of implementation of the relocation policy in many counties. In order to increase the pace of relocation work, the city government has made the following proposals: (1) the current immigration policy must be revised and improved; (2) the subsequent support for immigrant settlements must be strengthened; (3) all the policies and measures related to migration work must be further put into practice; and (4) some concerned departments must actively appeal to higher-level departments with regard to migrant quota and to adjust the relocation subsidy standard.
