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Communist Youth League students to ‘spread civilisation’ in countryside and ‘promote technology’
Agence France Presse via TheGuardian.com, April 12
[....] The Communist Youth League (CYL) has promised to despatch more than 10 million students to “rural zones” by 2022 in order to “increase their skills, spread civilisation and promote science and technology”, according to a Communist party document.
The aim is to bring to the rural areas the talents of those who would otherwise be attracted to life in the big cities, according to a CYL document quoted in the state-run Global Times daily on Thursday. “We need young people to use science and technology to help the countryside innovate its traditional development models,” Zhang Linbin, deputy head of a township in central Hunan Province, told the Global Times [....]
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Yeah, another Cultural Revolution - what could go wrong? Re-educatiing Uighurs and Tibetans has gone so well... Maybe they'll send these wise youth to Hong Kong - the yellow umbrellas are getting a bit uppity.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 4:45am