The Zigzag Course of Socialist Construction

A worker (right, front) who returned to the countryside in Xinhui County, Guangdong Province, doing farm work. To readjust the national economy, it was necessary to curtail the industrial development, cut down the scale of capital construction and reduce the number of staff members and workers, and urban population. Between 1961 and 1963, over twenty million urban citizens answered the call of the Party and moved to the countryside.