In early 1979, Liu Yan and several classmates founded an economics publication called "Xueyou Economics" that later became a sensation on the YSU campus.

The main purpose of the establishment of the Jacky Friends Economic Society is to provide suggestions for China's market-oriented economic reform and future economic development, and to do its part as an economist.

During the period when the publication was at its peak, more than 60 people in the entire grade published articles in "Xueyou Economics". There were many scenes described in poems by great men: pointing the country and inspiring words.

In this publication, students from the 1977 and 1978 levels often argued with the worker, peasant and soldier students from the 75 and 76 levels because of their different views and opinions.

Whenever a war breaks out, the propaganda board in the Yan-Da Triangle becomes the main battlefield filled with smoke.

This dispute lasted until the Spring Festival of 1980.

Workers, peasants, and soldiers of Level 75 and 76 began to graduate one after another before the Spring Festival of 1979. It was not until the Spring Festival of 1980 that all of them left the university campus.

From then on, the workers, peasants and soldiers students became a past event, memory and ending of that historical era.

In the memory of Liu Yan's previous life, not many people knew that in the history of Huaguo University, there had been a special generation of college students such as workers, peasants, and soldiers.

With the enrollment of the Class of 1979 college students in the summer of 1979, every campus in China finally formed a relatively unified ideology.

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During their four years at Yenching University, college students absorbed and supplemented not only knowledge, but also the grasp of opportunities and the establishment of ideas.

When the college entrance examination was just resumed in 1977, people still had a lot of things that had been instilled in their minds over the past ten years and needed to be washed over a long period of time.

Yenching University is where this cleaning process begins.

To be honest, many students from the Department of Economics at Yanda University have been enrolled for almost a month, and they still have many confusions, doubts and incomprehensions:

What is economics? What is political economy?

Including Liu Yan and Fan Lili, they are often confused.

At that time, there were no official textbooks for many subjects, only mimeographed handouts, or the same textbooks used by the 75th and 76th level worker, peasant and soldier students.

The moment they first enter the school, every 77-year-old college student has a lofty ideal and ambition in his heart, which is:

In the world, there are still two-thirds of the suffering people living in dire straits, waiting for us to liberate them.

It was only later that I gradually discovered that this was not the case.

It turns out that there is a huge gap between our country and many advanced and developed countries in the world.

From entering the school after the Spring Festival in 1978 until graduating before the Spring Festival in 1982, college students in the Class of 1977, together with the entire society, were constantly experiencing the impact of old and new ideas on ideological emancipation, institutional reform, and ideal reconstruction.

Teachers and students, and students often argue with each other over an issue or a point of view.

For example, in the reform, should rural areas be guaranteed to each household?

Can I run a private enterprise? Can a private enterprise hire workers?

Is hiring workers considered exploitative? How many people is hired to be considered exploitative?

How can we create more wealth?

How can we satisfy people's lives?

And this leads to more questions:

How does a company decide on production? Should there be profits?

What is the theoretical basis for rural household responsibility system?

Why can’t people’s communes solve the fundamental problems in rural areas?

During the long nights after lights out every night, the students would lie in bed and argue endlessly in the dormitory over these issues.

Take Liu Yan and the six of them, for example, if they finally find time to have a gathering, everyone will have a huge quarrel and break up unhappy because of their different opinions and opinions.

"We are a socialist country based on public ownership. How can we allow private enterprises?"

"Isn't it a retrograde step to implement household responsibility in rural areas? What will poor and lower-middle peasants like Uncle Liu do in the future?"

“Aren’t the bosses of private enterprises capitalists? Aren’t workers going to be exploited again?”

"What kind of enterprise is Yuanping Bamboo Factory?"

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Even between Liu Yan and Fan Lili, there are often disputes that lead to the two not saying a word to each other for several days.

Regarding the topic of household responsibility in rural areas, I was struggling to move forward during the entire school period of Grade 77.

Until early 1982, when the 1977 students graduated, the people's commune system had not yet been announced to be disbanded.

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The popular parade at YSU seems to be the common memory of all YSU students from 1978 to the late 1980s.

Especially the night of March 20, 1981, was the most unforgettable night in the campus life of the 1977 college students.

That afternoon, in the TV rooms of each dormitory building at Yenching University, excited students had already taken seats with small square stools, waiting to watch the live broadcast of this exciting game.

That night, the Chinese men's volleyball team caught up after being two games behind, winning three consecutive games and defeating the South Korean team 3-2.

Won the World Cup Men's Volleyball Asian Qualifiers and also qualified to represent Asia in the World Cup Volleyball Tournament.

This legendary game that turned defeat into victory made the YSU students sitting around the radio and TV couldn't help but raise their arms and cheer, and rushed out of the dormitory excitedly.

Overnight, the Yanda campus was in a state of excitement, with students holding lit brooms as torches, marching and shouting slogans.

For a time, the road at Yan's gate was bustling with people.

At the beginning, the slogan everyone shouted was "Long live the Chinese team!", and later it became "Long live the motherland!".

Later, someone got up and sang "Unity is Strength".

In this crowd, a classmate from the Chinese Department of Yan'an University shouted loudly: Students, let's change our slogan to "Unite and revitalize the motherland!" Everyone shouted "Unite and revitalize the motherland!"

These eight short words are the passion aroused by the Chinese men's volleyball team's comeback victory.

It was the strong voice of the times raised by students of Yan University in the 1980s.

It is also the national spirit that Yanda, as the ideological position of China, has once again historically expressed.

One person shouted and thousands of people responded, and the sound resounded throughout the entire motherland in an instant.

At that time, the country of China was in a period of great waste and was waiting for prosperity, and people's hearts were relatively scattered.

But the emergence of this slogan immediately united everyone.

The generation of level 77 is at a critical historical stage in the rise of the Chinese nation.

In everyone's heart, we have always felt that uniting to revitalize the motherland is the glorious mission given to us by history.

For more young people, "Unite and revitalize the motherland" is not only an inspiring slogan, but also a beacon guiding the future path of life.

The resulting discussion about "what is the meaning of life?" has made more and more young students realize that only by integrating their own ego into the greater ego of the motherland and keeping pace with the times can they achieve success.

Better realize the value of life.

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It wasn't until the moment he graduated from college that Liu Yan truly realized the full meaning of being reborn into this world, the meaning of being an intellectual youth who went to the mountains and countryside, and the responsibilities he shouldered as a 77-year-old college student.

Level 77 is a generation that has gone through many hardships.

He experienced three years of natural disasters as a teenager, interrupted his studies during his prime years of youth, went to the mountains and countryside, and spent ten wasted years.

Level 77 is in the worst era, and they are part of the 20 million young people who have been delayed.

But it was the best era. They were able to stand out from 20 million young people and caught up with excellent historical development opportunities.

Class 77 is not just an exclusive title for a class of college students. It is not only China's return to knowledge and civilization, but also the country's return to knowledge and civilization.

It is an important symbol in the history of China, a turning point in the rejuvenation of a country, and a symbol of an era.

The fate of the 1977 college students is quite legendary and is a product of a specific era.

Although their experiences cannot be replicated, their spirit is worthy of consideration, learning and inheritance by future generations.

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[Author's digression]: "1002889 Rebirth 1976 Begins as an Educated Youth" is a long serial officialdom novel that is completely different from the promotion of children from poor families...

Through the encounters of the protagonist's family in historical periods, the experience of going to the mountains and countryside, and the personal growth process, the work shapes the political character of a generation of people who love the motherland, understand the national conditions, sympathize with the people, care about the fate of the nation, and hope for the steady development of the country.

The author uses a different thinking and vision from previous officialdom works, and uses personal experience to take you from a new perspective to understand and recognize the other side of the positive energy of officialdom from the 1970s to the 21st century, as well as

The mind and pattern of a generation...

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