Down to the Countryside Movement

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:political_party
gptkbp:affectedPopulation	over 16 million
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs	gptkb:Up_to_the_Mountains_and_Down_to_the_Countryside_Movement
gptkbp:category	gptkb:Cultural_Revolution Chinese political history 20th-century Chinese history
gptkbp:consequence	disruption of education for a generation hardship for sent-down youth rural labor force increase
gptkbp:country	gptkb:China
gptkbp:endDate	1978
gptkbp:governmentType	gptkb:Communist_Party_of_China
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Down to the Countryside Movement
gptkbp:impact	demographic changes in rural China loss of educational opportunities psychological trauma for participants urban-rural relations in China
gptkbp:influencedBy	Maoist ideology
gptkbp:launched	gptkb:Mao_Zedong
gptkbp:legacy	subject of literature and film influenced later Chinese leadership
gptkbp:notableFigure	gptkb:Li_Keqiang gptkb:Wen_Jiabao gptkb:Wang_Qishan gptkb:Xi_Jinping
gptkbp:officiallyEnded	1978
gptkbp:opposedBy	some urban families
gptkbp:policy	rustication
gptkbp:purpose	to re-educate urban youth by sending them to rural areas
gptkbp:relatedEvent	sent-down youth movement
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:Cultural_Revolution
gptkbp:startDate	1968
gptkbp:targetAudience	urban youth
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Cultural_Revolution
gptkbp:bfsLayer	5