Abstract: During the Qianlong reign, the central government attached great importance to disaster relief efforts and established a set of relief policies. Time and again the emperor stressed that relief policies must be as lenient as possible. The key to the success of relief efforts lay in successful implementation of policy. In Pizhou, Suqian and Taoyuan Counties of Jiangsu province in the eleventh year of the Qianlong period, flood-strcken victims received relief funds and food in time due to the implementation of relief policies and “the ready-made examples”, but many problems also existed. This paper shows that local officials had not adjusted measures to the tome and situation or failed in their duty, as a result, the victim relief efforts were only partly implemented.