Thirty Years of Turbulence - Chinese Enterprises

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In February 1979, a large army of 7.6 million educated youth who had gone up to the mountains and down to the countryside returned to the cities where they had set out. Small scale riots erupted in various places, and employment became China's first urgent problem that needed to be solved. Ten years ago, the movement of educated youth going to the countryside initiated by Mao Zedong was booming. Middle school students walked out of school, packed their backpacks, and went to the countryside to receive re education from poor and lower middle peasants. Today, these so-called "educated youth" have gone through the baptism of the ten year movement to go to the countryside, like a group of wanderers who suddenly woke up from their dreams and collectively fled back to the city. Data shows that in addition to over 7 million people, there are still 3 million people who will continue to return to the city in the next two years. They want to eat, they want to work, they want to survive. This is a huge group of energetic people who think they have been delayed in their youth and can do anything, but have nothing to do for them. The American magazine Newsweek asked in its article "Can Deng Xiaoping Save China?": "We see a awakened China, but China faces many problems, such as the production order and working environment disrupted by the Cultural Revolution, and a large number of educated youth returning to the city. Deng Xiaoping's question is how to save all of this without changing China's socialist system