To relief poverty is a global challenge and nutrition-poverty alleviation is one crucial part.Both at home and abroad the work related with nutrition-based poverty alleviation has been conducted

yet there is no unified definition or scientific researches and review about it.Professor Zhao Yong’s research team from CQMU（hereafter referred to the research team）gave the definition and categories of nutrition-based poverty alleviation based on their early study and practice

namely it means advocating nutrition-based poverty alleviation work with all the resources available associating with nutrition

including health poverty alleviation

nutrition popularization of science and industrial nutrition alleviation.The research team have been focusing on local nutrition-based poverty alleviation work and have conducted some activities in local communities and counties（such as the nutrition-based poverty alleviation for social vulnerable people in urban poor area）.And we have joined the host of the first National Nutrition-based Poverty Alleviation Seminar.This paper summarized the previous literature and discussed the nutrition-based poverty alleviation work based on our practices.