Abstract: The shantytown is the result of city poverty. The resources-dependent city in Northeast China is the representative city of the shantytown and city poverty. The paper puts forward that the emphasis of shantytown reconstruction is to construct the circumstance of antipoverty, and the geography can research slum governance and city antipoverty through the clew of poverty denizen, poverty city zone and poverty city. The allocation uptown moved from the caved-zone in resources-dependent cities brings many problems,for example, the denizen’s living burden is aggravated, the location and scope of allocation uptown is not appropriate, the assistance ability of antipoverty to needy denizen from local government is very poor, and the transformation foreground of city economic is not very affirmative, etc. On the bases of these, many measures should be used in the resources-dependent cities to realize the sustainable shantytown reconstruction and accelerate city antipoverty, which includes advocating the flexible reconstruction pattern, improving location condition of allocation residence, increasing the assistance to poverty denizen from central government, and sustaining to enhance the spontaneity progress ability of resources-dependent cities.