Abstract: With the implementation of 13th Five-Year plan, the party and state pay more attention on poverty programs of minority areas, in order to try their best to solve poverty problems of each area. The study takes Guanghe County of Hui Autonomous Prefecture of Linxia Gansu province as an example, by taking field research, it found that many areas are confronted with numerous challenges, such as the difficulty of object identification, poor ability to recognize factors of poverty, formalism and extensive measures exist in the assisting system, unequal distribution of resources, the supervision is not in the place and the assessment keeps stiff in the process of implementing targeted poverty alleviation in ethnic areas. Combined the actual development of the local area with field investigation, this study suggests that in order to carry out the targeted poverty alleviation, firstly,governments need to establish a scientific income accounting system to identify objects; and secondly, they need to help the poor according to different classes to make sure that measures are suitable each situation of each area; thirdly, they need to establish track management of the poor and to complete the data platform of the poverty relief; and lastly, they need to improve the level of work management and diversified accurate assessment which aims to establish a green assessment mechanism.