The word "going to the countryside" first appeared in 1956125 the Political Bureau of the Central Committee document "National Agricultural Development Outline (Revised Draft) from 1956 to 1967", in which the concept of educated youth going to the countryside was put forward for the first time, which also marked the beginning of educated youth going to the countryside.

In the true sense, going to the countryside began with 1955 (in order to narrow the gap between urban and rural areas). On August 9th this year, Beijing youths Huayang and Li Bingheng proposed to the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League to reclaim land in the border areas. 10, 165438 was approved and encouraged by the Beijing Communist Youth League Committee, which subsequently led to the upsurge of urban educated youth reclaiming land in rural areas and frontier areas. Promulgated by Chairman Mao. There can be great achievements ","It is necessary for educated youth to go to the countryside and receive re-education from poor middle peasants ",and China organized a mass movement for urban" educated youth "to leave the city and settle down in the countryside.