Events tagged with "peoples daily"

Historical Events tagged with "peoples daily"

Turns out history loves a label—battles, breakthroughs, and the occasional disaster, all neatly tagged for your browsing pleasure. Because sometimes you just need every weird invention in one place.

Mao's Directive: Urban Youth to Rural Areas

December 22nd, 1968 56 years ago

The People's Daily published instructions from Mao Zedong urging urban intellectual youth to relocate to rural areas to experience poverty and provide labor. This directive aimed to root out counter-revolutionary bourgeois tendencies and instill a proletarian spirit among young urban intellectuals. The policy initiated a large-scale movement of educated youth to agricultural areas, reshaping societal dynamics and individual lives in China.