The party picked up and started for the countryside this morning.

We missed the rehearsal through being in the countryside.

The only travel they ever did then was when they were sent to the countryside.

Mr. Stahle said the Chinese government's subsidy programs, which included appliance and electronics rebates for consumers in the countryside, aided the speedy recovery of China's ad market.

However, he was denounced as a reactionary academic during the Cultural Revolution in the late Sixties, and exiled to the countryside.