Yanchi County, Ningxia, is located at the junction of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Inner Mongolia, and on the south edge of the Mu Us Desert. It is an old revolutionary base area and national poverty-stricken county. Even in a long period, Yanchi County is the representative of remote and poverty-stricken areas.The poverty alleviation way in Yanchi County has gone through five stages: construction of "Three-Xi"(Hexi, Dingxi and Xihaigu)(1983-1993), "double-hundred" priority poverty alleviation(1994-2000), "1000-village" poverty alleviation (2001-2010), poverty alleviation for millions of poor people(2011-2015)and targeted poverty alleviation (2016-2020). Through the unremitting efforts of several generations, Yanchi County successfully achieved poverty relief. In particular, since the Eighteenth Congress of the Communist Party of China, Yanchi County has thoroughly implemented the general strategy of targeted poverty alleviation proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping, taken the full resources of the county to change poverty, found the right way for poverty alleviation, firmly established the main responsibility, well aroused the endogenous power of the poverty-stricken masses, coordinated the implementation of "ten projects" of industry poverty alleviation, financial poverty alleviation, photovoltaic poverty alleviation, poverty alleviation through science and technology,ecological poverty alleviation, foundation improvement, etc. By focusing on the development of Tan sheep, pasture, Chinese medical herbs, minor coarse cereals, daylily and family-run small variety industry suitable for farmers to increase their income, strengthening the industry to stabilize the income increase, consolidating the foundation to make up for the weakness, and building a mechanism to ensure the basic life, Yanchi was successfully removed from the poverty list in 2018, becoming the first county in Ningxia.