In december 1968, mao issued a directive on “the need to re-educate young people in rural areas in order to re-educate poor middle-land farmers”, which led to a large-scale campaign to go up the hill. Between 1955 and the end of the 1970s, nearly 18 million people were decentralized to rural areas. In addition to changing the course of life of a generation of knowledgeable young people, rising up the hills and down the hills has brought about the vital interests of millions of urban and rural residents. While the “gang” has become silent in the mountains as it ends, its legacy of historical shocks has not yet disappeared。
Oralist: hu xian
Born in 1943, beijing. In 1962, after graduating from the high school with a full score, huo gave up the opportunity to study for the university and settled in the village of hebei. Later, he worked in tianjin po peng district and retired in 2007。
I've witnessed prime minister zhou's concern for zhiqing
I was born in beijing, and my father was an engineer, and my mother was a trade union cadre. As my mother moved to work, i was admitted to beijing liang high school, where i spent six years. It can be said that reading in the middle of the world has completely changed my life, because the vast majority of my classmates there are peasant children, and the schools often organize students to work in the countryside, where they live, study, work, and for a long period of time they are bound to farm, rural and peasant。
In 1962, after three years of natural disasters, i graduated with a full score. At a time when everyone was trying to prepare for the university, the state called for the reduction of the urban population and support for agriculture. At that time, the headmaster of the school had reported that he hoped that his rural classmates would “prepare one heart and both” and return to the village to work in agriculture if they failed to enter university. As a result, i have come up with the idea of “building new villages, rural students having responsibilities, and our urban youth having the same responsibilities”, and have decided to abandon the high examination for rural farming。
On 10 july 1962, i officially settled on the bridge at pao's county in tianjin city. It is a typical village with no electricity, no wells, no livestock, most of the salinity of the land, an average acre production of less than 200 pounds of good times, insufficient food for itself and state relief. But the simple folks are very kind, and several girls are fighting to be my companion. Read newspapers, read books and make needles under self-made soybean lamps, sleep on a small pile of dirt, and turn around and shout “one or two”. Many young people come home after a day of effort to cook for me, watch me eat, and every day there are so many people in my cabin who look out the window. Sometimes the folks used the moonlight to push me to the ground. I have taught literacy and set up clubs, published fliers, blackboards, and regularly scheduled small programmes to show the countryside a busy and full life。
A story makes me typical
Life on the bridge is bitter and happy. I live in two small huts, low, damp and leaky, where a few or two corn grains of food per day have to grind themselves to the ground. Unfortunately, even the skin is not enough for food, which often breaks down. In addition, i have to study agricultural tasks such as fields, seedlings, harvests, etc., and, in particular, agricultural land has to be ploughed. These realities make me understand that, while the reality of pursuing ideals is harsh, it must be held against its head. Now that we have chosen the path of rural integration, it will take a lifetime to deliver on our promises。
At the same time, hard days have led me to understand more about the need for “all-party action, large-scale agriculture” and to a stronger desire to change the backward face of rural poverty and to become more and more comfortable with the local population。
In 1963, a shanghai actress and writer, huang zhong ying, came to tianjin poeng to “live”, and she came to visit me in the village and spent a few days with me when she heard that i was a “special girl from the city to the countryside”. Soon after, she met prime minister zhou and told him about my village placement, which was published in the daily people's journal of 23 july 1963 at the request of the prime minister, when huang zongying wrote a long report entitled “special girls”. Prior to this, the chinese youth newspaper gave comprehensive coverage to the topic “the urban intellectual youth's commitment to building a new rural model — rural labour in the countryside — known as “special girls”. This was followed by successive interviews in other media, which made my reputation known as the country's famous advanced representative of zhang。
Since then, i have taken root at the tsiya bridge, where i have joined the party, been a village official and received various honours, and have been received and commended on several occasions by party leaders, including chairman mao and prime minister zhou. At the same time, more than 30 knowledge-based youths, most of whom have a high-school cultural base, are at the heart of rural undertakings, bringing about urban civilization and a vibrant atmosphere of silence in the countryside。
Eighteen years in the country
From 1963 to the beginning, i served as deputy secretary to the branch of the tsiyabashi group; from 1970 to 1979, i served as secretary to the branch of the tsiyabashi group; i was also secretary to the board of the psalms of the communist youth league, deputy secretary to the district committee of the communist party, deputy secretary to the tianjin district committee of the communist youth league, deputy director of the hebei women's union and deputy secretary to the city committee of the communist youth league; and in may 1976, i served as vice-chairman of the team for the leadership of the intellectual youth uphills and downs of the mountain, but remained a farmer。
As an example of the “youth of knowledge in the city's will to build a new village”, i was awarded a year-round qualification from 1963 to 1966 as a young champion, a good ycy member, an advanced worker and a labour model in hebei province; in 1964, i was elected to the third ycun committee and the national “nine” representative of ycyc in july 1964. At the opening of the assembly, the leaders of the party and the state, including president mao and prime minister zhou enlai, took a photo of all the delegates, and then separately received me and the remaining 21 youth representatives and spoke with us with them。
In particular, on 7 may 1971, prime minister zhou enlai, a member of the second exchange mission of agricultural farmers on the day of the meeting, was summoned and accompanied by prime minister zhou as the national advanced knowledge representative; in august 1973, during the national working session, prime minister zhou and i were summoned to participate in the meeting for consultations; in august 1973, i attended the tenth national congress of the party; in january 1975, i attended the fourth session of the national people's congress and was elected to the four-member standing committee; in september 1975, i was accredited as an advanced individual in national agricultural science; and in august 1979, i attended, together with yan, the symposium of the national advanced knowledge delegates, which was attended by the leaders of the party and the state of china。
Personal experience has enabled me, as an ordinary person, to reach out to national leaders, including prime minister zhou's pristine feelings of caring for farmers in rural areas, which have so far gone on record. The year 2008 marked the 110th anniversary of prime minister zhou's birth, and the year 2008 marked prime minister zhou enlai with the co-authors and editors of the autonomous regions of the country's 13 provinces and municipalities, who collaborated in the publication of the book known as zhou enlai. It is my many years' wish to write about prime minister zhou, and i want to record with my comrades the day i spent with him, telling future generations the true history of zhou eun's spirit。
In may 1980, i was consulted by the organization on the question of whether to go to the city or stay in the county, and i strongly requested that i remain in the county after 18 years of great love for me from the people of the poon. Since february 1990, i have been elected deputy governor of the powling people's government, who has been responsible for the teaching and teaching of human rights, family planning, civil affairs, the federation of the disabled, the red cross and trade in foreign trade, and i have devoted myself to any of them. In 1998, i managed county-wide agriculture, returned to dreamy land, led 560,000 farmers and fought hard to “lead towards basic agricultural modernization” and continued to fulfill my life wish。
Reminiscent of my country's path, it was a projection of an era in which we were so enthralled that we shared our country with youth and loyalty, and, despite all our difficulties, we reaped valuable and experienced wealth and lived a lifetime. Now that we are strong, in 2002 together with my companions, i planted more than a hundred acres of the “know-how forest” in the countryside, and set up a “kind of love garden”, which i hope “to leave a piece of green, to carry on a spirit” and that it will lead to eco-tourism and old-age programmes that will continue to realize the hope of building a new socialist rural life。
(the chinese economics weekly journal, journalist hu xian, made an interview, to which chen xiaocai, the publicity department of tianjin po peng district, contributed
