采取措施，改变贫穷面貌to combat poverty

• 包产到户不仅是治穷的办法，也会阻碍发展生产。

  Having production output quotas linked to households is a way to combat poverty, but it also hinders development of production.

• 省政府把“治穷先治愚”放在脱贫致富的首位。

  The provincial government has put "combating poverty by first combating ignorance" ahead of combating poverty and then achieving prosperity.