In 2017，the volume of public opinions concerning development-oriented poverty alleviation drooped markedly. The attention of media and netizens differed from each other. News coverage rose 36.2% on a year-on-year basis，while the amount of social media posts witnessed 51% year-on-year decrease. Both domestic and foreign media spoke highly of the achievement in China’s poverty alleviation，and focused on the strategic thinking and institutional guarantee of “targeted poverty alleviation”. Development-oriented poverty alleviation boasted prominent characteristics，and various areas had developed a range of “replicable，practical and adaptive” development-oriented poverty alleviation modes for agriculture. Suggestions from different perspectives were proposed as the development-oriented poverty alleviation confronted market risks and troubles of misconduct. From the perspective of public opinion communication characteristics，achievements in China’s poverty reduction boosted the confidence in public opinion dissemination，and comprehensive reports created favorable public opinion environment. We must spare no efforts to improve the content and form of reports concerning poverty alleviation，and to stimulate public attention and participating enthusiasm by sharing good stories.