0259 - Educated Young People In Countryside. After working a period of time...Back

Educated Young People In Countryside. After working a period of time in the countryside of Kwangsi. Young educated youth Sheng Min-chang (left) was sent to study in the Kwangsi Agricultural College. Upon graduation he returned to Yangton Commune to continue farm work. Last year he pooled his efforts with members of the commune's scientific experiment group in cultivating early rice on an experimental plot and achieved an average yield of 620 kilogrammes per mu (1/15 of hectare). Photo shows Sheng studying the growth of rice with a member of the scientific group.