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<tr><td valign=top colspan="2" style="white-space: nowrap; font-size:85%;">Traditional Chinese:</td><td valign=top style="font-size:110%;">上山下鄉運動</td></tr><tr><td valign=top colspan="2" style="font-size:85%;">Simplified Chinese:</td><td valign=top style="font-size:110%;">上山下乡运动</td></tr><tr><td valign=top rowspan="2" align="left" style="width:55px; font-size:85%;">Mandarin</td><tr><td valign=top style="width:60px; font-size:85%;">Hanyu Pinyin:</td><td valign=top class="Unicode" style="font-size:90%;">Shàngshān xiàxiāng yùndòng</td></tr>
The Down to the Countryside Movement (literally "Up to the mountains and down to the villages") was a political movement in the People's Republic of China in the late 1960s and early 1970s. As a result of the anti-bourgeois thinking prevalent during the Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong declared that privileged urban youths should be sent to mountainous areas or farming villages, in order that they could learn from the workers and farmers there. As a result, many fresh high school graduates were forced out of the cities and effectively exiled to remote areas of China. Some commentators consider these people, many of whom lost the opportunity to attend university, China's "lost generation".
zh:上山下乡运动
