Shanghai Story(262):Passionate years on the farm (I)
Culture
Length: 00:25:00
Date: 2016-4-2
Collection
Keywords: Shanghai educated youth | Life of educated youth | Young people going to poor areas

From the late 1950s to the early 1960s, there were two large-scale reclamation projects on Chongming Island. Wang Songnian, who is 72 years old, went to the farm after graduating from high school. From 1954 to the end of 1990, Shanghai set up 18 state-owned farms with more than 400,000 Shanghai educated youth working and exercising on the farms.