乡村贫困是中国社会经济发展的重要障碍之一,且有其自身的特点。作者认为对中国乡村贫困可以作如下解释:由于某一地区的人或群体对国家政府部门、各级政府部门通过法律和政策在一定时空内赋予他们的发展权利的无知、误识、放弃和因外在因素致使他们的发展权利丧失与被损伤,使得他们在发展分层中处于低于平均发展水平或处于社会共识的低水平的状态。 Rural poverty is one of the major obstacles to China’s social and economic development and has its own characteristics. The author believes that the rural poverty in China can be explained as follows: As a result of the ignorance, misunderstanding, abandonment and inadvertence of the people or groups in a certain region over the development rights granted to them through laws and policies within a certain space and time by the government departments at all levels and all levels of government departments External factors cause their rights to development to be lost and damaged, leaving them under-developed or at a low level of social consensus in the development stratification.