Wake up（260）

 

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At this hour, the sky was as black as thick ink, but the towering buildings around were lit up with lights. Although the main road did not have the scene of continuous flow during the day, the whole city was blurred under the night lights. The night view of Hong Kong is very dreamy.

Professors Hong Wenxuan and Shen Zhirui are still chatting in this small cafe in Hong Kong.

Shen Zhirui said that those people in the Mainland have been overturning the case for the Cultural Revolution. Starting from the inability of the two thirty years to deny each other, the history textbooks were revised, and the characterization of the Cultural Revolution in Deng Xiaoping's era was changed from "civil strife" to "arduous exploration." Some people openly advocated the launch of the "Mountain and Countryside Project in the New Era".

The Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of the Communist Party of China recently announced that it will mobilize young people to participate in rural revitalization, and strive to organize more than 10 million college and technical secondary school students to volunteer to go to the countryside within three years. .

The "Opinions on In-depth Development of Rural Revitalization and Youth Contribution Actions" issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League declares that Xi Jinping's socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics in the new era should be "into the minds and hearts of young people and see actions" among the majority of young people. The opinion stated that in the great practice of comprehensive rural revitalization in the new era, we must cultivate a youth work team for agriculture, rural areas and farmers who "understand agriculture, love the countryside, and love farmers", lead the majority of young people to listen to and follow the party, and contribute to the implementation of rural rural areas. Revitalize the strategy, accelerate the pace of agricultural and rural modernization, "contribute the power of youth".

According to the opinion, the key projects for deployment and development are listed as follows:

1. By 2022, no less than 100,000 young people will be mobilized to participate in the rural cultural environment improvement project.

2. The "Leading Goose" training plan for rural youth to become rich through entrepreneurship. By 2022, the establishment rate of county-level youth entrepreneurship organizations will strive to reach more than 80%, and 200,000 leaders will be contacted and served.

3. Youth Rural E-commerce Cultivation Project, and strive to help 10,000 young people use e-commerce to start businesses in the field of agriculture, rural areas and farmers by 2022.

4. Volunteers from college and technical secondary school students in the summer cultural, technological and health "Three Going to the Countryside" social practice activities, organize and lead college and technical secondary school students to go deep into the countryside, especially in the old revolutionary areas, deeply impoverished areas and ethnic minority areas to carry out social practice activities, and spread Civilization, promotion of science and technology, and establishment of new trends increase skills. By 2022, strive to organize more than 10 million students from colleges and technical secondary schools to participate.

5. The "Swallows Returning to Their Nests" project for young people returning home to start businesses, and strive to serve 100,000 young people returning home for employment and starting businesses by 2022.

6. The social practice activities of "returning to hometown" for overseas students. By 2022, we will strive to organize and mobilize no less than 10,000 party members and league members who are overseas students.

After seeing the relevant news report of "Do something big! The state plans to mobilize more than 10 million young people to go to the countryside within three years", netizens in mainland China can't help but wonder if the previous "Mountains to the Countryside Movement" is coming again. But many people believe that the purpose of going to the countryside in the past was to let the peasants change the educated youth, and now it is to let the educated youth change the village; if all the village branch cadres can be replaced by college students, it will also be a good thing for the countryside. But there are also many netizens asking, now that young people in rural areas have no money to earn and have gone to work in cities, what will they do if they send 10 million educated youths to the countryside? Many parents are worried that the state will inevitably force their children to go to the countryside again. Possible means include not giving graduation certificates, and not being able to take civil service exams. "Anyway, they always have a way."

Why do these people insist on overturning the verdict for the Going Up to the Countryside Movement? Is the movement of going up and down to the countryside a great feat or a disaster? Scholars of the history of the Cultural Revolution generally believe that Mao Zedong had two main purposes for carrying out the movement of going to the mountains and going to the countryside. First, in 1968, the Red Guard movement had lasted for more than two years. Although Mao Zedong and other leaders repeatedly called for "resuming classes and causing revolution" and for young people to return to normal life, the water was hard to recover, and social shock and chaos still could not be stopped. The other is to alleviate the employment pressure of urban youth. From 1966 to 1968, more than 4 million high school graduates in the three classes stayed in the city with nothing to do, which became an urgent social problem to be solved.

Hong Wenxuan: I have been thinking about it, what is the purpose of carrying out the movement of going to the mountains and going to the countryside? Why is the movement of going to the mountains and going to the countryside making a comeback?

Shen Zhirui said that Zhang Jie, a famous scholar, believes that at present, the Chinese economy is facing a severe recession. In addition to dealing with the US trade war and the fact that manufacturers from various countries have withdrawn from the mainland, they also have to face the strong impact of the epidemic on the Chinese economy. This has resulted in rising unemployment. China has 8.74 million college graduates this year, and the total number of college graduates next year is expected to be as high as 9.09 million. Independent scholar Wu Zuolai believes that the current situation in China is similar to what it was more than 50 years ago. In particular, years of urbanization have failed to allow most young people to settle down in cities, so they want to send young people to the countryside to ease the employment pressure in cities. The economic crisis we are facing now is very severe. Power shortages that haven't been seen in decades are now happening. This will start a chain reaction. They want to reduce the young forces in urban areas and developed areas, because this force is easy to engage in student riots and democratic movements, and send these people to remote areas to ease the political security pressure of the CCP.

Hong Wenxuan: From the mid-1950s to the end of the 1970s, the movement of going to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution lasted for 25 years, and the total number of educated youths reached more than 20 million. This is a rare large population migration from cities to villages in the modern history of mankind. Among the urban households across the country at that time, there was almost no family that was not associated with the "educated youth" going to the countryside. In October 1978, the CCP decided to stop the "Sent to the Countryside" movement and resettled the educated youth's return to cities and employment issues. After 1979, most of the educated youth returned to the city one after another. But going to the mountains and going to the countryside is Xi Jinping's youthful memory. He doesn't think the going to the countryside is a disaster. On the contrary, he cherishes that time very much. He said: "Seven years of hard life in the mountains and the countryside has given me a lot of exercise." "I almost never rest 365 days a year, except for illness. When it rains and winds, I cut grass with them in the cave dwelling and watch it at night. Then go to herd sheep with them, and do all kinds of work, because I carried 200 catties of wheat at that time, and I didn’t change shoulders on the mountain road for ten miles.” “The experience of going to the mountains and going to the countryside has a profound impact on me, which made me form a down-to-earth, The character of self-improvement." At present, China has entered the era of educated youth ruling the country, those at the top of the power pyramid, and even about 50% of the provincial officials, they all have educated youth experience. Those who also have the background of "educated youth" also have the background of "students of workers, peasants and soldiers".

Shen Zhirui said that the movement of going to the mountains and going to the countryside was the youthful years of young people during the Cultural Revolution, where their sweat, confusion, love and pain were found. Many educated youths of those days often returned to the countryside where they jumped in the queue, lingering about their past time; some opened educated youth-themed restaurants and educated youth museums; This is the tragedy of history.

Hong Wenxuan: I saw a passage written by the historian Mr. Ge Jianxiong. He said: Just because some of our leaders were born in the countryside, it is not right to think that "going to the mountains and going to the countryside" is right. The movement of "going to the mountains and going to the countryside" is absolutely wrong. They now have a slogan called "youth without regrets". It's nonsense. Did you choose it yourself? That is "youth helplessness", there is no choice. Some scholars also believe that we should stand at the height of modern civilization and reveal and think about the movement with a sense of historical depth. Only by putting it on the coordinates of Chinese history can we gain a historical perspective and recognize it. clear its essence. Otherwise, what we will be left with is the confusion of past experience, the longing for the affirmation of the wasted years, and the dispute over whether we have regrets or not. In the end, sins become great achievements. The crime of the Going to the Countryside Movement is that it deprives the educated youth of their natural human rights to make a living, choose a job, and move freely. The vast majority of educated youth were either brainwashed or coerced into that movement due to strong political pressure. Although the pressure of urban employment was suspended at that time, the youth of tens of millions of young people was wasted and countless families were torn apart. Beginning at the end of 1978, educated youths from all over the country marched and petitioned to return to the city. In January 1979, tens of thousands of educated youths in Yunnan Menggang Farm went on strike and issued the slogan "Give me death if you don't return to the city". Thousands of educated youths went on hunger strike to protest. Beijing educated youth Wu Xiangdong committed suicide by cutting his wrists in public. More than 30,000 educated youths knelt on the ground and shouted "We want to go home!" in unison, shaking the whole country. Lin Liguo, the son of Lin Biao, pointed out in the "Minutes of the May 71 Project" that sending educated youth "to the mountains and to the countryside" is a disguised form of reform through labor. In 1978, when Deng Xiaoping talked about the 17 million educated youth who went to the countryside to go to the countryside, he said: The state spent more than 30 billion and bought three dissatisfaction: the educated youth were not satisfied, the parents were not satisfied, and the farmers were not satisfied.

Shen Zhirui said, I insist that the movement of going to the mountains and going to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution was undoubtedly a national suffering, but the Red Guards of Mao Zedong did not reflect on this unforgettable suffering, but regarded it as a beautiful memory. In the face of China's huge unemployment and the youth's pursuit of democracy and freedom, Xi Jinping and his team of educated youths moved out of the old chamber pots that went to the countryside from Mao Zedong's totalitarian ideology. This not only shows that Xi Jinping and his educated youth team's concept of governing the country is outdated and backward, but also seriously violates humanity and the wishes of the people. The result will surely follow in the footsteps of Mao Zedong's failure.

Hong Wenxuan said: He and his team of educated youths hope to alleviate the employment pressure in the cities and the political security pressure on young people pursuing democracy and freedom through the new "going to the countryside". However, the comments of netizens reflect the public opinion of the Chinese people. They don't want to go back and repeat the tragedy of history.

The night is like a thick inkstone, so deep that it cannot be melted. In this city that never sleeps, everyone is intoxicated with feasting and feasting. Looking up, there are no stars in the night sky tonight, only a few lonely stars, trying to shine, scattered scattered, like glass marbles discarded by people. Loneliness makes the originally dark night sky even more misty.

Shen Zhirui and Hong Wenxuan share a common understanding:

Today, 40 years after China's reform and opening up, society and people's ideas have undergone profound and irreversible changes. No one can bring China back to the Cultural Revolution era of Mao Zedong's totalitarianism, nor can it prevent the collapse of dictatorship and tyranny. China will inevitably realize democratic transformation, which is the general trend of history.