Claim: Former Ya'an Communist Party Secretary Xu Mengjia from Yibin, Sichuan participated in the Cultural Revolution until August 1976 and joined the People's Liberation Army in 1976, serving in the 59035 Army.
Evidence: Previously he served as the Communist Party Secretary of Ya'an. August 1957 (age 63)
Yibin, Sichuan During the Cultural Revolution, he became a sent-down youth in Qujing County and Gao County from June 1975 to August 1976. The sent-down, rusticated, or "educated" youth (Chinese: 知識青年), also known as the zhiqing, were the young people who—beginning in the 1950s until the end of the Cultural Revolution, willingly or under coercion—left the urban districts of the People's Republic of China to live and work in rural areas as part of the "Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside Movement". In December 1976, he joined the People's Liberation Army, serving in 59035 Army.