The educated youth in the country can be roughly divided into two categories: one is to jump the queue and live with farmers. They earn work points with farmers and make a living by themselves. If given the chance, they can be transferred back to the city. The other is the educated youth of the Frontier Production and Construction Corps. They are nominally soldiers of the Corps, living a semi-militarized collective life and enjoying a meager salary, but they can't recruit people back to the city or recruit them. There are 2 million such educated youth, accounting for the proportion of educated youth in the country.
Simply looking at why you want to go to the countryside, it seems that the old man gave an order: educated young people want to go to the countryside and receive re-education from poor middle peasants. When Chairman Mao waved me forward, it naturally became a movement to the countryside. It has been liberated for more than ten years. Why did such a call only appear in the late 1960s? Marx said that to find the ultimate cause of things, we must go deep into the economic field. The economy here-including productivity and relations of production (economic base). Forty years, why go to the countryside? I don't know how many educated youths are thinking about this problem. As a member of the educated youth movement, they all hope to find out his ultimate reason. After decades of thinking, I have this feeling: