When will educated youth go to the countryside?

Educated youth going to the countryside 1956.

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 in the suburbs of Beijing, Huayang, Li Bingheng, Pang Shuying, Li Liancheng and Zhang Sheng.

Apply to the Beijing Communist Youth League Committee and initiate the organization of the Beijing Youth Volunteer Reclamation Team. The Beijing Communist 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 to 1967 draft national agricultural development program that young people who graduated from primary and secondary schools in cities can not only pursue further studies and find jobs in cities,

Historical background

We should actively respond to the call of the state and go to rural and mountainous areas to participate in the great cause of production and socialist construction. 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.

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. This is conducive to mobilizing young and educated young people in the city to participate in the reclamation work, and it is also a way to solve the problem that unemployed young people in future cities cannot go to school and find jobs.