Why do young intellectuals go to the countryside?

The educated youth going to the countryside is 1956, and the time period is 1956 to 1978. Since the 1950s, young students who graduated from urban primary and secondary schools have volunteered to go to mountainous areas, rural areas and border areas to participate in rural socialist construction. For example, on August 9th, 1955, five young people, Huayang, Li Bingheng, Pang Shuying, Li Liancheng and Zhang Sheng, from the suburbs of Beijing, applied to the Beijing Communist Youth League Committee to organize the Beijing Youth Volunteer Reclamation Team. The Beijing Youth League Committee approved their request and organized a 60-person reclamation team.

1956 65438+ 10, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee wrote in "1956- 1967 national agricultural development program": "Young people who graduated from primary and secondary schools in cities should actively respond to the call of the state, in addition to further study and employment in cities. Here, urban primary and secondary school graduates are called intellectual youth, and the behavior of going to the countryside to participate in agricultural production is summarized as "going to the countryside". This is the first time to put forward the concept of educated youth going to the countryside, and it has also become a symbol of the beginning of educated youth going to the countryside.

Historical background of educated youth going to the countryside

1954 During the large-scale reclamation movement, the Soviet Union changed the previous way of land reclamation by immigrants, taking urban youth as the main body of land reclamation, and mobilized 270,000 urban youth immigrants to reclaim land within two years. This not only solved the food shortage, but also solved the employment problem of urban youth.

1In April, 955, the delegation of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League learned about the reclamation movement of young immigrants in Soviet cities. After returning to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, he reported the practice of the Soviet Union, arguing that "it is conducive to mobilizing young and educated young people in the city to participate in reclamation work, and it is also a way to solve the problem of being unable to enter colleges and universities and the employment of unemployed young people in the city in the future." This opinion was endorsed by Mao Zedong.

Baidu encyclopedia-educated youth going to the countryside