Since the founding of New China, in order to solve the problem of urban employment, urban youth have been organized to transfer to rural areas since the mid-1950s, especially to set up farms in remote rural areas.
After entering the 1970s, the state began to allow young intellectuals to gradually return to cities in various names, such as recruitment, examination, retirement from illness, post-posting, only child, no one around, students of workers, peasants and soldiers and so on. 1978 10 the national working conference of educated youth going to the countryside decided to stop the movement of going to the countryside and properly arrange for educated youth to return to the city and get employment.
Detailed introduction:
Educated youth, as its name implies, is the abbreviation of educated youth. When the new China was founded, a large number of educated youth could not find jobs in cities, and they went to the countryside at that time. The educated youth went to the countryside to jump the queue from the 1950s to the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1977, and did not end until the college entrance examination was resumed.
Among the young people sent from cities to rural areas, some are voluntary and some are forced by the situation. They have a common feature, that is, they have basically received different levels of cultural education. Since 1950s, young people in cities have been living in rural areas spontaneously or organized. Under the call of many young intellectuals, they spontaneously went to the countryside, reclaimed land in mountainous areas and started farms in rural areas.