中文摘要：

发达国家学者认为乡村贫困最显著的特点是其具有隐藏性,即贫困人口的真实情况被平均统计数据所表现出的乡村发展状况所隐藏。本文以广东省连州市为例,基于平均统计数据和贫困人口数据,采用量图分析法和贫困发生率法分析乡村贫困的空间特征,并将两者进行对比。研究发现,基于平均统计数据的乡村经济发展水平空间差异并未真实地反映贫困人口的空间差异,一定程度上将贫困人口隐藏。这一结论与研究区地方发展背景密切相关,也可为现阶段的扶贫开发工作提供有益借鉴。应综合考虑乡镇经济发展水平和乡镇贫困人口两个方面来确定乡镇贫困的真实状况,以提高扶贫开发的针对性和有效性。

英文摘要：

Many scholars believe that a principal characteristic of rural poverty is its invisibility in developed countries——which means that the truth of the poverty is hidden by the status of countryside development based on the average statistical data.Taking Lianzhou city at county-level as a research area,this paper discusses the spatial manifestation of rural poverty and its invisibility characteristic.This paper uses two methods to examine the rural poverty space.The first one is using the average statistical data and quantity chart analysis method;the second one is using impoverished people data and the poverty incidence method.And then,it compares the two results.The conclusion shows that the spatial differentiation of economic development based on the average statistical data cannot reflect the spatial differentiation of poverty population truly,in other words,the aggregated official statistics,based on average levels of income and expenditure,disguise the presence of poverty within the county.Such findings have relationship with the development background of this research area and also provide some useful information to the recent local poverty elimination practices.Thus we should consider both of the average statistical data and the poverty population to confirm the reality of rural poverty in order to improve the pertinence and effectiveness of the poverty alleviation.