Going To Work In The Countryside Movement Essay

The “Going to work in the countryside” movement was announced and encouraged before the Cultural Revolution in 1956. There was a document called the National Outline for Agricultural Development from 1956 to 1957. This was the first time “Going to work in the countryside” appeared. At the beginning, the aim of the movement was to establish the countryside by using teenagers’ knowledge and passion. This movement was especially for remote mountain areas, where there were sufficient natural resources, but a lack of human and knowledge resources, like in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regions and the North-Eastern parts of China, like the Great Northern Wilderness, where Rae Yang had been for several years. Some people were sent to the border area …show more content…
The first aim of the “Going to work in the countryside” Movement was changed to deal with the employment pressure in cities. The abolishment of the entrance-college examination led to increasing numbers of students graduating from high school who needed the opportunity to work, but faced the limited number of positions available in cities. Unemployment is a term of capitalist society, so it cannot appear in a socialist country. When young people were sent to villages as peasants, this eliminated unemployment. By providing opportunities in the village Mao was able to circumvent the problem. -you are citing Feng Jicai here, right? Give the source The second aim was to bring Red Guards under control. Most of young people had joined the Red Guard, and the “Going to work in the countryside” Movement became the method to distribute students during the Cultural Revolution. The Red Guards were an organization of young people who had the absolute loyalty to Chairman Mao. However, because of the absolute loyalty, they caused disaster for society, culture and humanity. At first, young people had divided into several groups with different methods of showing respect to Chairman Mao. However, different groups of young people started to fight for their own aim—every group believed that they were the right one to protect socialism and Chairman Mao. After this, the …show more content…
The story of Rae Yang’s friend Cao serves an example to illustrate this point. No one knew what had happened on her, but she had lost her mental functioning. Cao additionally suffered because there were rumors that she had spoken out again Mao and she felt guilty about something she did not know if she had done. Rae Yang had described this part as “burst out” and Cao did not show any emotion from her eyes. Cao’s parents were in May Seventh Cadre School, and people bullied and played tricks on her because of her background and her illness. Rae defined her as the minority who could not survive in the Great Northern Wilderness, because she did not have a strong enough heart to face difficult situation, including the bullying and