What is the context of Mao Zedong’s original text about “the vast world has great potential”?

"All such intellectuals who can go to work in the countryside should be happy to go there. The countryside is a vast world, and a lot can be accomplished there."

This was Chairman Mao’s call to educated youth across the country in the 1960s. "Chairman Mao waved me forward." The vast number of educated young people, full of revolutionary pride, rushed to the countryside and the frontiers, embarking on the broad road of integrating with poor and lower-middle peasants. A large-scale upsurge of educated youths going to the mountains and countryside quickly formed. A 27-year movement of educated youths in China that shocked the twentieth century, involved 18 million young people, and touched the hearts of one billion people, began.

Extended information:

The movement of educated youths going to the mountains and countryside refers to the period during the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s and 1970s. Chairman Mao issued the statement “The countryside is a vast world. , where they can accomplish much" and "it is necessary for educated youth to go to the countryside and receive re-education from poor and lower-middle peasants", the Chinese government organized a political movement for a large number of urban "educated youth" to leave the city and settle and work in the countryside. .

This movement to the mountains and countryside that swept across China 30 years ago not only affected the lives of more than 20 million educated youths, but also impacted the parents, families, schools and surroundings of these more than 20 million educated youths. society. It can be said that the movement of educated young people going to the mountains and countryside was like a hurricane, leaving a deep trace on the plane of Chinese history and it will never be erased.

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