Abstract: The living standard recovery of reservoir immigrants is an important factor to judge the resettlement effectiveness and quality. According to the 10-year stationed successive monitoring data on the living standard recovery of the reservoir immigrants in a county, this paper analyzes the income and expenditure structures of immigrants and predicts the time needed for living standard recovery. The results show that after short-period of decline, the living standard of immigrants rose successively. The living standard recovery of immigrants working both in industry and agriculture was faster than that of jobber immigrants, however the second one recovered faster than those only working in agriculture. In 2014, the living standard of immigrants was higher than expectation, even higher than that of local residents, which was explained that the government persisted in development-oriented resettlement policy and implemented a series of preferential and supportive policies.