China’s New ‘Going to the Countryside’ Campaign: Impact on Employment and Social Stability

2023-08-28 08:50:19

[Voice of Hope August 28, 2023](Interview and report by our reporter Wang Xiao) Recently, nine departments in China encouraged college students to return to their hometowns for employment, and called on retired cadres and teachers to return to their hometowns to settle down. Some analysts pointed out that in the face of the economic downturn and the severe employment situation, the CCP launched a new version of the “Going to the Countryside” political campaign to throw the “five categories of red” to the countryside to reduce the financial burden, and at the same time let them disperse to the bottom of society to monitor society.

Nine departments, including the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, recently jointly issued the “Implementation Plan for the “I Build My Hometown” Activity.” The program encourages graduates from ordinary colleges and vocational colleges to return to their hometowns to start businesses and work in villages; it encourages and guides retired cadres, retired teachers, retired doctors, retired technicians, and retired soldiers to return to their hometowns to settle down and become good industrial development instructors, Senior affairs supervisors, social conditions and public opinion informants, and village construction think tanks; promote the rural construction financing and co-investment mechanism, and change the traditional “government single investment” into “multi-party crowdfunding”, etc.

Current commentator Gu Chunqiu told Voice of Hope on the 27th: This shows that China’s economic crisis is serious, which will lead to social crisis. There is no solution to the employment problem of young people in China. The college students who come out of the countryside have to go back to the countryside. Their years of hard study have been wasted, and their disappointment makes them dare to take risks. They have knowledge and culture. The CCP is most afraid that these people will organize and become a force that threatens the CCP’s rule. The return of retirees to settle in their hometowns is also out of the need to maintain the stability of the regime.

He said: “China’s economy is in recession, the unemployment rate remains high, and the pensions of retirees are not guaranteed. This will trigger protests from retirees, just like the outbreak of some retirees protesting cuts in retirement benefits in Wuhan and Dalian in February this year. Once it breaks out on a large scale, the CCP regime will be under a huge threat. If even those within the system oppose the government, then the CCP’s rule will not be able to continue.”

Lai Jianping, a master of international law from China University of Political Science and Law, pointed out that this is a new version of the political movement of going to the countryside. The so-called call for young people, retired cadres, teachers, etc. to return to the countryside to settle down means that they are asked to go to the countryside, leave the city, and let them pay for the Communist Party.

He said: “These people spend a lot of medical resources and public financial expenditures in the city, and the burden is relatively heavy. If they are also scattered to the countryside, let the countryside absorb the social burden of this part of the retirees. The rural areas are vast and sparsely populated. There may be only three or five people in a village, and these people are scattered, which largely eliminates the factors of instability. In essence, it is an act of the Communist Party to throw its burden under the current severe economic and financial situation. Political security , reducing the economic burden.”

Lai Jianping further pointed out that the current program is in the stage of discussion and promotion. Soon, they will implement it with great fanfare.

Sheng Xue, a Chinese-Canadian writer, said: The CCP interest group has no way to manage the country, but it has many ways to regulate the people, and it can “kill multiple birds with one stone”.

She said: “Encourage retired cadres, retired teachers, retired doctors, retired technicians, and retired soldiers to return to their hometowns and settle down. They are asked to donate money to help the poor, and the serious poverty problem in rural areas is thrown on these individuals. The most sinister thing is to encourage and guide retirees who return to their hometowns to be all kinds of instructors, supervisors, and think tanks. That is to say, these people are scattered to the bottom of society, becoming the CCP’s eyeliners and agents, and managing and supervising the CCP regime. The society around them. So the CCP now takes such a huge group of people as its burden. Another thing is to let this group of people continue to work for the CCP until they are buried by this regime.”

Sheng Xue further pointed out, “The CCP’s rule has caused great divisions in the society, and the disparity between the rich and the poor is very serious. Now China has formed a society of complicity and mutual harm. These people return to the countryside and live in a more In a dangerous environment, there may even be conflicts, even violent incidents, and some people will die.”

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