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Updated: May 22, 2025

When rural youth inundated the cities in search of employment, the government returned the excess urban population to die countryside and recruited students and other urban youth to work on farms. Reeducation camps in outlying areas also provided cheap farm labor. The problem facing China or any nation that modernizes and industrializes in the twentieth century can be simply stated.

Wolfram Eberhard - A History of China