The slogan of people's daily to inspire fighting spirit

This is an interesting warning. With the pun meaning of the word "cutting in line", it reminds everyone to consciously abide by public morality, maintain public order, consciously queue up and not cut in line.

It is not difficult for people who know the history of China in the 1960s and 1970s to understand that "educated youth jumping the queue" is a topic often mentioned when people with the task of resettling educated youth meet in cities and even rural areas. "Jumping in line" refers to the transfer of young intellectuals in these cities from cities to rural areas, and they are inserted into different production teams for life and labor exercise according to the arrangement of the village.

"Educated youth" is the abbreviation of "educated youth". For a long time, "educated youth" and "educated youth" became a proper term, referring to a special group at that time, that is, young people who were voluntarily or forced to be sent from cities to rural areas as farmers from the 1950 s until the end of the Cultural Revolution. In fact, most of these people have only received junior high school or high school education.

After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), in order to solve the employment problem in cities, from the mid-1950s, urban youth were organized to move to rural areas, especially remote rural areas, and farms were set up. As early as 1953, People's Daily published an editorial "Organizing High School Graduates to Participate in Agricultural Productive Labor". In 1955, Mao Zedong put forward that "the countryside is a vast world with great potential" became the slogan of educated youth going to the countryside later. From this year on, the Youth League began to organize farms to encourage and organize young people to take part in the reclamation movement. 1962 proposed to organize a nationwide movement to go to the countryside. 1964 the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has set up a leading group for this purpose.

1966, influenced by the Cultural Revolution, the college entrance examination was stopped. By 1968, many middle school graduates can neither enter universities nor find jobs. In addition, the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution in 1966-1968 made China's leading bodies realize that they needed to find ways to resettle these young people so as not to get out of control. 196865438+February 22nd, instructed People's Daily to publish the article "We also have two hands, don't be idle in the city", which quoted Mao's instruction that "educated youth should go to the countryside and receive re-education from poor middle peasants ..." The whole country began to distribute middle school graduates to the countryside in an organized way, and the movement of educated youth going to the countryside was officially launched nationwide.

From 197 1, many problems of rural educated youth began to be exposed, and at the same time, China began to assign some jobs to the educated youth who were decentralized from the city. Most of the educated youth who return to the city in this way get the opportunity to return to the city through relationships. By 1975, even Mao Zedong felt the seriousness of the problem of educated youth and decided to reconsider. But today, millions of young intellectuals are still assigned to the countryside every year. Mao Zedong died in September 1976, which also put the problem of educated youth on hold.

1977 resumed the college entrance examination, and most rural educated youths tried their best to return to their hometowns. 1in the winter of 978, the intellectual youth in Yunnan expressed their demands in the form of petitions and strikes, which once again made the central authorities feel the urgency of the problem. 1on may 8th, 980, Hu Yaobang, then general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, proposed not to go to the countryside. 1 01October1day, the central government decided that the educated youth who used to go to the countryside can gradually and systematically return to their hometown cities for resettlement, and the 25-year-long movement of educated youth going to the countryside is completely over.

From 1950s to the end of 1970s, the total number of educated youth going to the countryside in China was estimated to be between120,000 and180,000.