Southwest Poverty-stricken Areas Of Small-scale Peasant Economy Characteristics And Its Transformation Path

China's poor population decline has slowed down in recent years, and even rebound. While the remaining poor people in China are mostly concentrated in the Southwest now. From GDP of 2008, Chongqing, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan, Guizhou , the five administrative divisions of Southwest China, the average of GDP was 13,735 RMB, only was about a half of the country, this is relate with the high proportion of agriculture population. Southwest is the environmental area, and inhabited by many minorities, and agricultural economy reflected in the small-peasant economy. Now, peasants in Southwest China is poor, which not only affect residents living expenses, but also has a significant impact on the socio-economic stability and development of the whole national economy. Therefore, the purpose of this research is that to figure out the basic characteristics and inherent laws of small- peasant economy of poverty-stricken areas in southwest China, then offer the methods to reconstruction the small-peasant economy and the theory and policy to other poor regions .This study uses standardized and empirical, qualitative and quantitative research methods, for instance, document analysis, observation, investigation, experiment, empirical study, qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis. From the research, we know farmer-households in poor areas in southwest China are based on self-sufficiency, and they also pursuit profit maximization on a certain extent. And they are characterized mainly in the diversification of production structures, low openness of the market, unreasonable fertilizer input. Extending of the land scale can decrease diversification of production structures, increase the degree of open, decrease fertilizer input. While farmers in poverty-stricken areas of southwest planting a single plant, it is not efficient, and it is not real specialized agricultural production either. Therefore, it is necessary to transform peasant economy in Southwest. Through the analysis, I believe that small-peasant economy in southwest could be modified by the path of relative scale of planting, transport agricultural surplus labor, agricultural industrialization and build agricultural Co-operative .