Call for educated youth to go to the countryside
(1968)

It is very necessary for intellectuals to go to the countryside to receive re-education from the
poor peasants and lower-middle peasants. We must persuade urban cadres and others to
send their children who have graduated from junior high school, high school, and university
to the countryside, and launch a campaign to mobilise them. Comrades in rural areas should
welcome them. [1]

[1] In a note published on 22 December 1968, the People's Daily reprinted an article from
the Gansu Daily about urban residents in Huining County settling down in rural areas,
quoting Mao Zedong's words in bold type.