I have already touched on the difficulties of poverty reduction in previous chapters. It is not easy for any single country. And it can be more ‘difficult’ in a statist country where people tend to count it as a full responsibility of the state and attribute any progress or failure in poverty reduction to the national anti-poverty strategies and policies. In such cases, to formulate a ‘good’ poverty strategy or policy is extremely important. Since the ‘occurrence’ and ‘disappearance’ of poverty is also a product of social and economic changes, policymakers will inevitably need to figure out the causes and dynamics of poverty first. This chapter delves into specific questions related to why China elevated its national strategy on poverty to the level of a war.