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Young people volunteer to "Go West"
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ON AN AVERAGE DAY IN CHINA 27 recent university grads are selected to be sent to work strengthening China’s poorer western provinces. 60,000 applied for the 10,000 slots in the 2007 “Go West” volunteer program.
Sending idealistic and educated young people to poor areas is not new strategy in
Unlike those Maoist era educated youth, today’s volunteers sign up for just a year or two. And, should the challenges of life in the west prove too much, one can opt out.
In the
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Thomas P. Bernstein, Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages: The Transfer of Youth from Urban to Rural
Barbara Bils, “What Determines Regional Inequality in
Anita Chan, Richard Madsen, and Jonathan Unger,
Edward Cody, “Chinese Grads 'Go West' to Serve in Provinces,”
Corporation for National and Community Service, “Serving Communities and Country,” < http://www.nationalservice.gov>, accessed June 15, 2007.
Belton Fleisher, Haizheng Li, and Min Qiang Zhao, “Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in
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[Clayton Dube, USC U.S.-China Institute]
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