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If you’re still up in the air over what to do over the Chinese New Year holiday, or if you just happen to have a couple weeks off, you could always go to China’s impoverished inland region and participate in the construction of the new socialist countryside.Southern Rural News editor Tan Yifei’s got a plan [zh], Regarding the initiative to go to rural experimental zones for the Spring Festival, posted to his Sina.com blog late last month:
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Comrades,The annual Spring Festival is upon us, and first I wish everyone a happy new spring.Spring Festival is a traditional holiday for the Chinese people,
and it has its unique significance and charm. But as society develops, us here in the cities far too seldom taste the flavor of spring. Perhaps you’re sick of the commercial hoopla and flippancy
of the city, or maybe you still haven’t experienced the delight of a traditional northern Spring Festival, or seen a northern village in winter. But so long as you’re willing, you too
could see in the new year from the countryside.
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The Youth China Action [YCA] is an activity launched by a group of extremely young, enthusiastic volunteers seeking idealism in serving the motherland. Its core idea is to
give non-idealists some ideals, to give idealists some ideology, to let willing youth act, and continue changing China. Despite that the YCA still remains in the preparatory stage, its subsidiary
project of feeding university students into the rural project has been going for over two years now, and a new countryside construction experimental zone has been established in Luonan, Shaanxi, which plays part of the role in the urban-rural
harmonious interaction.
今年春节，试验区农æ°'å会å†ä¸€æ¬¡å'Œå¤§å¦ç"Ÿæ"¯å†œåŠžå…¬å®¤è"手，开展部分文艺活动，如果您在春节期é-´åŽ»è¯•éªŒåŒºè¿‡å¹´ï¼Œæ‚¨ä¸ä»…å¯ä»¥ä½"验到åŒ-方农æ'风情，还å¯ä»¥äº†è§£åˆ°è¯•éªŒåŒºå†œæ'æ°'情，进一æ¥åŠ æ·±å¯¹ç¥–å›½ä¼ ç»Ÿæ–‡åŒ–å'Œç¥–国国情的认识。到åŒ-方农æ'风情，还å¯ä»¥äº†è§£åˆ°è¯•éªŒåŒºå†œæ'æ°'情，进一æ¥åŠ æ·±å¯¹ç¥–å›½ä¼ ç»Ÿæ–‡åŒ–å'Œç¥–国国情的认识。
This Spring Festival, the Experimental Zone Peasant Association has once again partnered up with university ‘Support the Countryside’ offices and launched a bit of
a literature and art activity. If you find yourself willing to go to the experimental zone over Spring Festival, not only will you be able to get a feeling for the northern countryside, but
you’ll also come to understand the feelings of the rural people there further deepen your understanding of the motherland’s traditional culture and national sentiment.
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Steam Flower Buns, write Spring couplets, do the Lion Dance, sing the local opera, pay respects
to the Fire God and let off firecrackers are just some of the things you can personally enjoy.
促进城乡å'Œè°äº'动，建设社会主义新æ'，就在æˆ'们的共åŒè¡ŒåŠ¨ä¹‹ä¸ã€‚æ´›å-试验区欢迎您的光临。
Advancing urban-rural harmonious interaction and creating new socialist villages starts with our joint action. Luonan Experimental Zone welcomes you.
è"系人：
马永红 13002944313（西安）13991414900 （商洛）
（é'å¹´ä¸å›½è¡ŒåŠ¨ä¸å¿ƒä»£æ€»å¹²äº‹ï¼‰
é‚"三平09147566667（洛å-试验区农æ°'å会会长）
殷本涛13991564225（大å¦ç"Ÿåå"ºå†œæ'工程洛å-负责人）
Contact:
Ma Yonghong 13002944313 (Xi’an) 13991414900 (Luonan)
(Acting Director-General, Youth China Action Center)
Deng Sanping 09147566667 (Chairman, Luonan Experimental Zone Peasant Association)
Yin Bentao 13991564225 (Spokesperson, University Student Rural Project, Luonan)
A modern and voluntary twist on discredited socialist policies for people left behind by their capitalist cousins in the cities?
Have China’s neo-red youth taken up the slack which local cadres and NGOs don’t or can’t? Ma Yonghong,
the force behind this project, at least is a local. From one of the poorest families in his village, he was accepted into the police academy in the provincial capital, but dropped out after two years,
disillusioned with the flippancy, falling in love, net-surfing and video games [zh+photo] he saw there, and returned to his village, to
his mother’s anger, to put back into his community. Many photos from his work
there can be found on his own blog. Such a huge topic, there’s so much more to be said, not the least on Ma Yonghong himself. Any questions? Or need for further translations? Please leave a
comment.More information on China’s “new socialist countryside” plan here, here, here and here.
Ma Yonghong 13002944313 (Xi’an) 13991414900 (Luonan)
(Acting Director-General, Youth China Action Center)
Deng Sanping 09147566667 (Chairman, Luonan Experimental Zone Peasant Association)
Yin Bentao 13991564225 (Spokesperson, University Student Rural Project, Luonan)
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