有位曾是省级“知青模范”的社会学家这样评说:当年的1800多万上山下乡知识青年是本世纪最后一代理想主义者! 在我们的社会生活中有一个由1800多万人组成的特殊群体——上山下乡知识青年。他们几乎都降生于共和国诞生前后的岁月里,在市场经济大潮中,他们中间升起了一批引人注目的新星。他们群体的思想、行为,始终闪烁着共产主义理想的光芒…… A former sociologist who once was a provincial “educated youth model” commented: In the past, more than 18 million intellectual youth who went to the countryside and went to work in the countryside were the last generation of idealists in this century. In our social life there is a group of more than 18 million Special group of people - going to the countryside knowledgeable youth. Almost all of them were born in the years before and after the birth of the Republic, and during the tide of the market economy, a group of striking new stars rose among them. The ideology and behavior of their group have always shone with the light of communist ideals ...