Abstract: Using the analytic hierarchy process and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method, based on the data from the field survey of the deep poverty areas in the four southern Xinjiang prefectures, the performance evaluation of employment poverty alleviation among the government departments, enterprises, social organizations and poor households was conducted. The results showed that the comprehensive evaluation of poverty alleviation through employment was good, but the proportion of good and general was more than 50%, indicating that there were still many problems in poverty alleviation through employment that need to be improved. Therefore, it was proposed that the popularization of the employment poverty alleviation policy should be improved, the willingness of enterprises and social organizations to participate in poverty alleviation through employment needed to be improved, the practical level of skills training content provided by the government, enterprises and social organizations needed to be improved, the sustainable development of poverty alleviation through employment needed to be improved.

Key words: deep poverty areas, employment and poverty alleviation, multiple subjects, performance evaluation