A Probe Into The Cause Of Sent-down Youth Campaign's Rising

Sent-down youth up the mountains and down to the villages is wide influential and significent social campaign ,which is organized by Chinese government after new China's establishment. It is one of the important events which deal with more than seventeen millions people in modern history of China. The overall search for this complicated event is far beyond what this article is able to contain. The article initially explores the rising reasons of sent-down youth up the mountains and down to the villages. The article sees through its causes from viewpoints of social economy and politics by means of history and positivism. It analyzes how sent-down youth up the mountains and down to the villages is in progress, how sent-down youth up the mountains and down to the villages does boom andwhy sent-down youth up the mountains and down to the villagescontinues twenty five years.The main social and economical reasons of sent-down youth up the mountains and down to the villages are as followed: firstly, the excessive expansion of city'population results in exployment's pressure; secondly, the biased economic structure, "equalitarianism" economic system, unreasonal labour's management system, the increasingly strong enrolling's pressure and great mount of graduating from middle school arise the problem of employment; thirdly, it is urgent to need the farmers with civilization and scientific knowledge for agricultural construction; lastly, it drives from the traditional idea, which eliminates the difference between city and village.The political reasons of sent-down youth up the mountains and down to the villages are as followed: firstly, it is to cultivate the proletarian successors; secondly, it is to re-educate sent-down youth, thirdly, it is for the politics of social surroundings.In general, the major purpose of sent-down youth up the mountains and down to the villages before the Cultural Revolution is to probe the concrete approach of solving employment, meanwhile economic motives occupy the ruling position; sent-down youth up the mountains and down to the villages during the Cultural Revolution is so closely connected with political campaigns during the Cultural Revolution, it turns into wildly zealous political campaign under the advocation of ultra-"Left" trend of thought, the political motives occupy the ruling position.