“Asset” is a kind of concept that only relates to the wealthy or the nonpoor. It’s no doubt that the poor don’t have or can’t have any assets At present, we assist the poor just according to cash and goods subsidy which based on the income But in fact, income subsidies just maintain the lowest standard of life, which can not help the poor break away from the impoverishment The professor Michael Sherraden proposed the assetbuilding theory, which indicated the asset can bring up the gigantic economical and social benefit We should help the poor set up their owned assets account that is propitious to get out off the poverty According to the understanding of the asset-building theory and the “American dream” plan, this paper makes some suggestions for Chinese antipoverty