About educated youth

On December 22, 1968, the "People's Daily" article quoted Mao Zedong's instructions: "It is necessary for educated youth to go to the countryside and receive re-education from poor and lower-middle peasants. Immediately, the educated youth campaign was launched across the country." After that, by 1978, nearly 20 million educated youths went to the mountains and countryside to receive the "very necessary" "re-education of poor and lower-middle peasants". However, going to the mountains and countryside did not begin with the "Cultural Revolution"; It was advocated in the 1950s and started in the 1960s. For the educated youth at that time, they went to the countryside to eliminate the "three major differences" and had a positive idealistic color. Xing Yanzi, Hou Jun, Dong Jiageng and others. A large number of outstanding young people are their typical representatives. Therefore, in the broad sense of the educated youth movement, from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s, the total number of educated youth reached about 20 million. >Educated youth going to the mountains and countryside is a special path provided by a special history for a generation of young people. On this road, precious youth is wasted, beautiful ideals are shattered, confidence in life is shaken, and a generation of educated youth suffers. Struggle achievements. In the country's most difficult years, they, together with the local people, supported the Communist Party of China and the National Building with their diligence and wisdom. They had a better understanding of the hardships of life. Most of them have a hard-working character. The word "educated youth" is not just a literal meaning, but a "qualification" given to them by that special experience.