China's Youth Policy [microform] / K. P. Broadbent
- Bib ID:
- 5307614
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Broadbent, K. P
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED128117
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1976
- 18 p.
- Summary:
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As a central feature of China's current domestic policy, rural resettlement is considered a vital strategy for combating revisionism, consolidating the proletariat dictatorship, restricting bourgeois rights, narrowing differences, strengthening the countryside, and promoting agricultural development. Since rural China has suffered from excessive urban migration, rusticated youth are perceived as the catalytic agents needed to transform the countryside and agriculture. Avoiding the collectivization of the 1958 Commune Movement, rural peasants migrated to the cities where excessive natural increase, the search for a production breakthrough (the Great Leap Forward), and the Sino-Soviet split were causing severe food and infrastructural problems. Consequently, in the early sixties, some 20 million people were transferred to the countryside, and in 1963, the government officially decided to stabilize China's urban population at 10 million. The result of insufficient numbers of youth in rural areas with appropriate training for rural employment, the Cultural Revolution of the sixties revolutionized education in China by emphasizing practical skills and agricultural orientations at the expense of intellectualism. Therefore, the policy of rusticating the youth constitutes the core of Chinese economic development, and its success will depend upon whether or not Chinese youth remain in the countryside. (JC)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at Seminar 15, "Rural Youth: Human Resource or Human Burden?" of the World Congress of Rural Sociology (4th, Torun, Poland, August 1976).
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