Since making economic development the backbone of its aid-the-poor strategy, the PRC has adopted four major measures: financial allocation, aid-the-poor loans, jobs in exchange for relief, and aiding the poor by popularizing science and education. This paper first provides a brief introduction to these measures, then discusses both from the perspectives of marketization and the pursuit of economic results their contradictions with aid-the-poor objectives and the conflicts between the cardres and the masses caused by their implementation. Also analyzed are questions related to scope and fairness that result from an indistince definition of the poverty line. The gap between rich and poor and cadres' corruption and irresponsibility are the core problems that the PRC must deal with in order to solve the “poor population” issue after it has overcome” common poverty.”