Abstract: Language for poverty alleviation combined with supporting the will and wisdom is one of the important measures of poverty alleviation. Its necessity and possibility are mainly reflected as follows. Language for poverty alleviation has its inherent theoretical logic, that is, the language is human capital, institution and can construct industry. The three attributes are a comprehensive system. Language for poverty alleviation has its unique advantages. The use of language resources can produce generate scale, synergy and intergenerational effects, create green and low-carbon GDP, and achieve real poverty alleviation. Language for poverty alleviation has gained more experience and empirical support. The ways to language for poverty alleviation are as follows. Investigate the influencing factors of popularizing Mandarin Chinese and improve the contribution rate of Mandarin Chinese ability to poor areas; Pay attention to the factors such as the age of the learners and linguistic distance between the minority language and Mandarin Chinese; Develop and utilize the minority language resources, combine the minority language industry with tourism industry and translation industry, and promote the minority language products (language services) through multiple channels; Develop the foreign language training market and carry out language vocational education in response to the market demand.