Educated youth, broadly speaking, refers to the educated youth, generally refers to the youth with higher education, and refers to the youth who voluntarily went to the countryside from the city or the Land Reclamation Corps to farm or build and defend the frontier from the end of 1968 to 1978. In fact, most of these people have only received junior high school or high school education.

Jumping in line belongs to collective ownership, and there is no need for political examination and physical examination, and there is no strict quota limit (except for going to the frontier). As the name implies, in rural production teams, they earn work points, dividends and rations like ordinary members.

The contribution of educated youth:

For the countryside at that time, the appearance of educated youth was like a breeze blowing on your face. The educated youth's thoughts, knowledge, culture, literacy and living habits have brought positive influence to the countryside. Elegant, neat and versatile educated youth have become idols of rural children, and many educated youth have played a very good role in rural school education and ideological and cultural activities.

The knowledge of educated youth has also come in handy in pesticide proportion, land measurement, calculation and statistics, machinery maintenance and so on. After the college entrance examination was resumed in the later period, the high enthusiasm of educated youth also led many rural youths, some of whom changed their fate. The large-scale urban-rural exchanges brought by educated youth can be said to be rare at all times and at home and abroad.

This kind of communication is two-way, which not only brings the information and resources of the city, but also feeds back the information and resources of the countryside to the city. This kind of communication is also long-term, and many educated youths have established long-term contacts with rural areas.