Abstract:In recent years, the concept of pro-poor growth has become the theoretical frame of development economics and the intriguing topic among developing countries. Based on the empirical analysis on new rural poverty line of 2008 and the 1985-2008 rural income packet data in China, this paper compares the advantages and disadvantages of four pro-poor growth measurement methods. Due to the advantages of poverty equivalent growth rate and the relative advantages of poverty growth curve in the phase analysis, this paper uses them to evaluate the performance of the last three stages of poverty alleviation in rural China. The result shows that,with whole-village promotion and human capital development, the phase of active participation in poverty reduction has made more notable achievements.