What was the slogan of going to the countryside in those days?

This is an interesting warning, which uses the pun meaning of the word "cutting in line" to remind everyone to consciously abide by public morality, maintain public order, and 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" means that young intellectuals in these cities move from cities to rural areas, and according to the arrangement in the village, they are inserted into different production teams for life and labor exercise.

"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/kloc-0 to the end of the Cultural Revolution. In fact, most of these people have only received junior high school or high school education.

Since the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), in order to solve the problem of urban employment, since the mid-1950s, young people in cities have been organized to move to rural areas, especially remote rural areas to set up farms. 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." This 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 proposes 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, under the influence of the Cultural Revolution, the college entrance examination was suspended. By 1968, many middle school graduates could neither enter universities nor find jobs. In addition, the turmoil of the' 66-'68 Cultural Revolution made China's leading bodies realize that they need to find ways to resettle these young people so as not to get out of control. On February 22nd, the People's Daily was instructed to publish an article entitled "We also have two hands, don't be idle in the city", quoting Mao's instruction: "It is necessary for educated youth to go to the countryside to receive the re-education of poor 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. At the same time, China began to assign some jobs to educated youth scattered in cities. However, most educated young people who return to cities in this way get the opportunity to return to cities through relationships. By 1975, even Mao Zedong himself felt the seriousness of the problem of educated youth and decided to reconsider it. But so far, millions of young intellectuals are still assigned to the countryside every year. Mao Zedong died in September, and the problem of educated youth was temporarily put on hold.

1977 the college entrance examination was resumed, and most rural young intellectuals tried their best to return to their hometowns. /kloc-in the winter of 0/978, Yunnan intellectual youth expressed their demands in the form of petitions and strikes, which once again made the central authorities feel the urgency of the problem. 1980 On May 8th, Hu Yaobang, then general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, proposed that he would never go to the countryside again. 1 01October1day, the central government decided that the educated youth who went to the countryside in the past could gradually and systematically return to their hometown cities for resettlement, and the movement of educated youth going to the countryside for 25 years was 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.