Abstract: Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) is a sound system about the development theory of rural ,which is contribute to exert famers’s dominant position in the poverty reduction program. In this paper, embarks from the participatory assessment's concept and the methods research, taking Nanzhao County as an example ,acceptes the methods of villagers interview and problem tree-type to analysis the outstanding problems restricted the poor areas.Combining with SWOT analysis,proposed appropriate poverty program and draw up a village-level development strategies.