The Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside Movement, often known simply as the Down to the Countryside Movement, was a policy instituted in the People's Republic of China between the mid-1950
Some of the 200,000 sent-down youth from Shenyang (1968)
Certificate in honor of Down to the Countryside Movement
Sent-down youth
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Sent-down, rusticated, or educated youth, also known as the zhiqing, were young people who left the urban districts of the People's Republic of China to live and work in rural areas as part of the Dow
Down to the Countryside Movement
…develop their talents to the full" through education amongst the rural population. Many fresh high school graduates, who became known as the so-called sent-down youth (also known in China as "educated youth" and abroad as "rusticated youth"), were forced out of the cities and effectively exiled to remote areas of…
Sent-down youth
Sent-down youth in Changli County, Hebei