Advances in Applied Sociology, 2017, 7, 391-403 http://www.scirp.org/journal/aasoci ISSN Online: 2165-4336 ISSN Print: 2165-4328 The Walnut Industry Development Strategies Based on the Perspective of Precise Poverty Alleviation in Danfeng County Shiqing Yan College of Urban and Planning, Yancheng Teachers University, Yancheng, China How to cite this paper: Yan, S. Q. (2017). Abstract The Walnut Industry Development Strate- gies Based on the Perspective of Precise In order to give full play to the role of regional characteristic industries in po- Poverty Alleviation in Danfeng County. verty alleviation work of China, it is necessary to explore the development Advances in Applied Sociology, 7, 391-403. strategies of regional characteristic industries under the background of precise https://doi.org/10.4236/aasoci.2017.712026 poverty alleviation. This article analyses the number of poor people, the labors Received: November 27, 2017 of poverty, the structure, employment status and spatial distribution characte- Accepted: December 24, 2017 ristics of labor in poverty in the county. According to the characteristics of the Published: December 27, 2017 poor population and its labor force, this article presents the development Copyright © 2017 by author and strategies of the walnut planting and processing, walnut and its products cir- Scientific Research Publishing Inc. culation, walnut culture tourism and walnut industry research and develop- This work is licensed under the Creative ment, based on the perspective of industry precision poverty alleviation. Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). Keywords http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access Precise Poverty Alleviation, Characteristics of Poor Population, Labor Force Situation of Poverty, Industrial Characteristics, Walnut Industry, Development Strategy 1. Introduction Eliminating poverty, improving people’s livelihood and gradually realizing common prosperity are the essential requirements of the socialism (Wang, 2016; Zhuang et al., 2016; He, 2017). Since the reform and opening up, China’s gov- ernments at all levels have focused on poverty alleviation and poverty shaking off. And the poverty alleviation policy has shifted and there are different forms, such as reform to promote poverty alleviation, rural development poverty allevi- ation and development and protection combination poverty alleviation. In re- cent years, China pursues all-round precision poverty alleviation; in addition to DOI: 10.4236/aasoci.2017.712026 Dec. 27, 2017 391 Advances in Applied Sociology S. Q. Yan targeting all the poor population, the precise principle runs through the whole process of poverty alleviation (Luo & Yi, 2011; Ma & Kai, 2017; Gong & Gong, 2017; Huang, 2016; Tan & Lin, 2017). Different from the foreign countries tak- ing payments to support the poor, China adopts the strategy of multiple paths in poverty alleviation and the development of production poverty alleviation as the main path after aiming at the poor population (Zhang et al., 2015), and industry poverty alleviation has become the most important way to precision poverty al- leviation (Huang et al., 2017). At the same time, the academic circles summarize the rich experience of pre- cise poverty alleviation in the areas of mountain (Ma, 2016; Li, 2017; Sun, 2016), ethnic minority areas (Liu et al., 2017; Yu, 2016; Yang, 2016; Yu, 2016), concen- trated contiguous poverty-stricken areas (Yang, 2016), and other different types of areas in the country, and study the plight and solution measures of precision poverty alleviation in specific industries in specific areas (Huang et al., 2017; Ma, 2016; Yang, 2016). They studied in the theoretical orientation (Liu & Zhan, 2016), function mechanism (Chen, 2016), path selection (Sun, 2016; Chen, 2016), implementation method (Li, 2013), policy simulation (Chen, 2016), policy evolution (Wang, Li, & Zuo, 2016), policy differentiation and other aspects of the industry precise poverty alleviation, and put forward a series of unique in- sights (Yu, 2016), and discussed the relationship between the environmental protection and industry precision poverty alleviation (Han, Sun, & Pu, 2009), supply side structural reform and precision poverty alleviation (Kong, Zheng, & Liu, 2017), the application of big data in industry precision poverty alleviation (Zheng & Cao, 2015), and other aspects of the precise poverty alleviation. The research of the specific industries in poverty alleviation has been done, such as the important role of industrious in the precise poverty alleviation (Wang & Yu, 2017), characteristic industries in the precise poverty alleviation (Zhang & Dou, 2017), the relationships in characteristic industry (Geng, 2017) and the coupling relationship between financial services and characteristic industry in the precise poverty alleviation. The above research has made a positive contribution to industrial precision poverty alleviation. However, in the background of precise poverty alleviation, how to develop the regional characteristic industry to give full play to the pover- ty alleviation effect deserves further study. Based on the analysis of poverty cha- racteristics in Danfeng County, this paper discusses the development strategies of walnut industry in the county, in order to enrich the theory of characteristic industry precise poverty alleviation and guide the practice of precise poverty al- leviation. 2. The Characteristics of Poverty in Danfeng County Danfeng County located in the eastern section of the Qinling Mountains in sou- theastern Shaanxi province, which is a national poverty-stricken county. The spatial distribution and employment status of the poverty-stricken population in the county is an important basis for formulating the industry precise poverty al- DOI: 10.4236/aasoci.2017.712026 392 Advances in Applied Sociology S. Q. Yan leviation strategy. 2.1. The Number Characteristics of the Poor The current poverty line of China is based on 2300 yuan of an annual per capita income of residents at the constant price of 2010 as benchmark. According to the changes of the price level, China’s poverty line was 3000 yuan in 2016 (Xin- hua Reporter, 2017). Based on this standard, there were 61,244 people in Dan- feng county, making up 19.65 percent of the total population of 311,722, this year. The number of poor people in each town and its proportion of the total population is different. In terms of the number of poor people, the number of people living in poverty in each town is between 3008 and 13,299. Among them, the number of poor people in the street of Longjuzhai is the most, reaching 13299. The town of Zhulinguan was second with 7149 people. The number of poor people in the town of Huapingzi is the lowest, with a total of 3008 people. From the proportion of the total population of the poor, the proportion of the total population of poverty-stricken people in the whole county is 19.65 percent, and the proportion of poverty-stricken people in the streets of each town is 14.00% to 32.46. Among them, the proportion of poor people in the town of Huapingzi is the highest in the total population, reaching 32.64%. The pover- ty-stricken people in the street of Longjuzhai have the lowest proportion of the total population, about 14%. In the 12 towns (streets) of the county, the popula- tion of the poor is less than the average of the whole county and only the Long- juzhai streets and Shang towns (see Table 1). 2.2. The Labor Structure of the Poor According to the ability of labor, the poor people can be divided into three cate- gories: the poor with the ability of labor and the poor people who are not work- ing age, etc. From the county scope, the poverty of the poor in Danfeng county has reached 39,599, accounting for 64.66 of the entire poor population. The number of poor people who have lost their working capacity is 1811, accounting for 2.96% of the total poverty. The number of people living in poverty in the non-working age was 19,834, accounting for 32.39 of the poor. In the composition of the working poor population, the proportion of ordi- nary labor force is up to 99.51% and the number reaches 39,405. The proportion of skilled labor was 0.49 percent, with 194 people in total (see Table 1). 2.3. The Employment Status of the Poor The labor force in poverty employment has important effects on precision po- verty reduction strategy. From the point of employment, in 2016 the Danfeng county’s poor labor employment for 16,736 people, accounting for 42.26% of the total labor force in poverty. The numbers of employment people outside the province, in the province outside the county, in the county outside the town and in the town are 1588, 5664, 3452 and 6032 respectively (see Table 2). From the time of employment, the labor force of the poor people in Danfeng DOI: 10.4236/aasoci.2017.712026 393 Advances in Applied Sociology S. Q. Yan Table 1. Population and poverty of each town (street) in Danfeng County in 2016. Impoverished people The labor force in poverty Poor who Population No-working Skilled Ordinary lost their Of the county Amount Percent Amount age in poverty labors labors working ability Longjuzhai Street 94,959 13,299 14.00 8556 49 8507 317 4426 Yuling town 17,127 3607 21.06 2112 16 2096 418 1077 Caichuan town 13,871 3358 24.21 2049 10 2039 141 1168 Luanzhuang town 22,626 4907 21.69 3322 10 3312 83 1502 Tieyupu town 17,077 3640 21.32 2441 3 2438 29 1170 Wuguan town 21,406 5099 23.82 3148 10 3138 170 1781 Zhulinguan town 32,887 7149 21.74 5276 29 5247 105 1768 Tumen town 12,311 2670 21.69 1705 3 1702 94 871 Siping town 16,903 4825 28.55 2940 4 2936 89 1796 Shang town 30,407 5121 16.84 3151 35 3116 193 1777 Lihua town 22,933 4561 19.89 2803 22 2781 63 1695 Huapingzi town 9215 3008 32.64 2096 3 2093 109 803 whole county 311,722 61,244 19.65 39,599 194 39,405 1811 19,834 Data source: poverty statistics of Danfeng County (internal data), Danfeng County Poverty Alleviation Bureau, December 2016.