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Poverty reduction is now the major issue for developing countries to focus on and whose success, or otherwise, will directly affect the achievement of the development of the nation. China has achieved significant achievements in poverty reduction since the launch of its reform and opening policy in 1978, however, the poverty issue still seriously maintained. The central government of China lunch a new strategic plan for poverty alleviation called precision poverty alleviation in 2015, trying to taking targeted measures for poverty alleviation. Moreover, most of the poverty regions are overlapped with the famous tourism resources, which offer the best opportunity for the tourism industry be involved in this new poverty alleviation strategy. This paper mainly focusses on pro-poor tourism as the new tourism policy for precision poverty alleviation. Specifically, this paper is divided into three themes based on the focused topic. The first theme overviews the poverty alleviation in China, the processing period and the gap between previous strategy and poverty alleviation situation. The second theme describes the importance of pro-poor tourism for precision poverty alleviation and explores the development model. The last theme for this paper offers the academic discussion and future prediction related to this new tourism policy for precision poverty alleviation in China.