在上世纪60年代末至70年代的中国知青上山下乡运动中,海南岛跟北大荒、内蒙草原、陕北高原、西双版纳一样,是重要的知青聚居地。当年从广州、湛江、汕头、西安、海口等城市约八万名知青,怀抱“到祖国最需要的地方去”的理想,奔赴海南垦区种植橡胶,跟农垦员工一起,披星戴月开发荒山 During the movement of the Chinese educated youth up and down the countryside in the late 1960s and 1970s, Hainan Island, like the Great Northern Wilderness, the Inner Mongolia grassland, the Northern Shaanxi Plateau and Xishuangbanna, is an important place for educated youth. In those days, about 80,000 educated youth from Guangzhou, Zhanjiang, Shantou, Xi’an and Haikou went to Hainan Reclamation rubber plantation with the ideal of “educating their youth to the most needed place in the motherland”