Livelihood framework advocates a bottom-up mobilization and locally-led development.With the basic assumption of “it is not true that the poor have nothing”,livelihood framework takes the household as an analytical unit.It starts from the advantages of the household rather than its needs,so as to analyze its livelihood assets,inherent potentials and livelihood strategies.Livelihood framework tackles rural issues from the dimension of poverty alleviation,and advocates a pro-poor and people-centered rural development.It considers agriculture as one of the strategies for the poor to obtain their livelihood resources,and emphasizes the importance of multiple job-holdings,the multiple ways of maintaining livelihoods,and the combination of complex livelihood activities of individuals and households.It considers farmers as social actors who can actively construct livelihood strategies by utilizing various livelihood resources,and also have the capacity to change social structure.It pays attention to the dynamic processes of land and poverty,the impacts of social structure on the access to land resources,the allocation of land resources,the combination and utilization of micro-level practices,and the power and political relations behind.Because of its instrumentalism and institutionalization,the livelihood framework has to some extent concealed the complicated political and power relations,and thus been criticized by scholars in political economy and other fields.