EVENT INFORMATION

16
Yüni
1961

The central government orders a reduction in urban population and grain sales

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📅 16 Yüni 1961 📍 China

A set of nine measures sought to reduce the urban population and cut grain sales in cities. Millions of people were transferred or returned to rural areas as the state struggled to match food supply with demand. The policy helped relieve urban provisioning pressures but imposed severe burdens on workers and families, demonstrating how adjustment costs were shifted onto people with little power over planning.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

State Council officials

urban workers

Rural households

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Central Government

state enterprises

local governments