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In the 1960s when the cultural revolution began, China's geography was high segregated between urban and rural, while the East near Beijing and the cities on the East coast were densely populated and highly urbanised, the West was very sparsely populated and held little economic significance.

The north and South of the nation held great importance to the food security of the nation as they were home to the agricultural sectors, These areas however were also relatively Isolated and were seldom exposed to the communsit Ideas Mao wanted to preach and thus the Government Implemented the Down to the Countryside movement. In this movement, young scholars would go down to the country side and spread revolutionary, communist ideals to the local farmers and other workers.

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SUmmary: Initiated by Chairman Mao Zedong in order to revitalize and the revolutionary spirit of Communist China by eliminating political dissidents, whether they be western-liberal inspired thinkers or Chinese traditionalists. They were framed as bourgeoisie infiltrators and brutalized by Mao's Red Guards, mobilised urban youths who served as communist thugs. They rooted out those who weren't considered revolutionary enough. This period was characterized by brutality and terror. THe estimates of people dead from this revolution are between 500,000 to 2,000,000 people. It was a decade long from May 16 1966 to the fall of 1976, a few months after Mao's death.

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A Brief Overview of China’s Cultural Revolution

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The Cultural Revolution began on May 16, 1966, under the direction of Mao Zedong.

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China Cultural Revolution: the dark decade of violence and repression that changed the country