 Additionally, the Communist Party leadership sent youth to the countryside to help defuse the student fanaticism set in motion by the student Red Guards movement from 1966 to 1968.On December 22, 1968, Chairman Mao directed the "People's Daily" to publish a piece entitled "We too have two hands, let us not laze about in the city", which quoted Mao as saying "The intellectual youth must go to the country, and will be educated from living in rural poverty.