In mountainous areas, the regional difference of poverty is significant due to the interweaving of natural conditions and cultural factors. The determination of the poverty-affluence degree and the reasons can help to improve decision support for mountainous areas to get rid of poverty and become rich. This paper takes mountain counties in Hebei province as the basic unit. 33 indicators are selected from five dimensions. The natural environment (A), the land resources (B), the county economy (C), the people's quality of life (D) and the livelihood ability (E) to construct a index system. And multidimensional povertyaffluence status is obtained in research area. The poverty location entropy is introduced to analyze the influence of each dimension on the occurrence of poverty. In order to discover the spatial consistency and differences between poverty-affluence distribution and dominant dimension, the two results are compared in space. And sustainable livelihood strategies are discussed with the dominant factors of each dimension. The results are as follows. the incidence of multidimensional poverty is 89.52% and above moderate poverty is 62.50%. The poverty level is deep in research area. In spatial distribution, moderate and low poverty degrees were frequent, while severe, rich or relatively rich areas are scattered. In poverty driver, the incidence of poverty dominated by A and C dimensions is higher than that of other dimensions. Severe poverty is highly coupled with A dimension, and moderate poverty is consistent with A and C dimensions. Basing on the results, the livelihoods strategies are put forward, such as the ecological relocation, an increase of the profit of the natural resources and getting rid of poverty through land and agricultural industry.

poverty-affluence  /  poverty factors  /  sustainable livelihood  /  mountainous regions of Hebei province