China’s tourism poverty alleviation process has gone through natural poverty alleviation，development-driven poverty alleviation and precise poverty alleviation，which has created a poverty alleviation road with Chinese characteristics. China’s tourism poverty alleviation model putlocal residents on priority，and emphasizes the function of both government and market. Thegovernment takes charge of the integration of villages’ endogenouspowerand participation of externalsociety. Meanwhile the enterprises’ responsibility includesdirect operation and indirectassist. China’s development experience shows that tourism poverty alleviation needs to be led by government，focus on local residents’ interest and pay attention to the regional development differences. Besides，the key points are integration of primary，secondary and tertiary industries，combination of development and protection，as well as mixture of financial aids and intellectual support. In the future，the focus of poverty alleviation should be shifted from absolute poverty to relative poverty，from economic poverty alleviation to multi-dimensional poverty alleviation，from grand narrative based on strategy to micro soft care for the good life of residents，and then seek better poverty alleviation way on the theory we summarized.