Spatial Identification and Distribution Pattern of the Complexity of Rural Poverty in China Using Multisource Spatial Data

Table 5

Poverty indices of 14 contiguous specially poor areas of China.

Poverty index	NII	SEPAI	PPI
Liupan Mountains area	2.82	0.82	2.64
Qinba Mountains area	2.72	1.06	2.68
Wuling Mountain area	2.29	0.94	2.26
Wumeng Mountain area	2.33	0.60	2.95
Stony desertification area in Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guizhou	2.10	0.67	2.26
Mountain area in western Yunnan	1.99	0.86	2.82
South Foothills of the Greater Khingan Range	2.99	0.79	2.09
Yanshan-Taihang Mountains area	2.91	1.02	2.44
Lvliang Mountains area	2.84	0.94	2.33
Dabie Mountain area	2.39	0.68	1.95
Luoxiao Mountain area	2.29	0.87	2.01
Tibetan areas of Sichuan	3.61	0.92	3.15
Kashgar, Khotan, and Kizilsu Kirgiz in southern Xinjiang	3.66	0.99	3.00
Tibet	4.34	—	—