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The first of thousands of May 7 Cadre Schools, intended to "re-educate" party members, government bureaucrats, college students and professors, and other professionals with forced labor alongside peasant workers, was opened in Liuhe, a village in the Qing'an County of China's Heilongjiang Province. At the height of China's Cultural Revolution, millions of Chinese professionals were sent to be forcibly "re-educated" at cadre schools for at least a year.
Sources
China’s Cultural Revolution, Explained, by Austin Ramzy, in New York Times,(May 14, 2016)
Wikipedia
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