The Symposium of Novel Poverty Issues in the Information Society and Tendency of the Management Science was held in Lanzhou in November 2019. The subject of the symposium is the micro-level mechanism of information poverty and related macro-level institutional arrangement which attempting to the information poverty alleviation. More than 120 researchers from 20 academic institutions attend the symposium. The symposium focused on the topics relate to universal service of telecommunication, the theoretical background of information poverty research, the common features and personality characteristics of information poor, the agency of individuals which many caused information poverty, the relationship of social structural factors and the information poverty et al.