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[[File:Ding Xian experimental broadcasting to combat illiteracy, Asia Magazine (1935).jpg|thumb|A radio receiver set up as part of the Ding Xian Experiment in 1935. When the picture was taken, lectures were being broadcast by the Mass Education Movement in an attempt to combat illiteracy.]]
The '''Ding Xian Experiment''' ({{zh|t=定縣實驗|s=定县实验|p=Dìng Xiàn shíyàn|w=Ting Hsien shih-yan|c=}}) during the [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republican period]] of Chinese history was a project in [[Rural Reconstruction Movement|Rural Reconstruction]] sponsored by [[Y.C. James Yen|James Yen's]] [[Chinese National Association of the Mass Education Movement|Mass Education Movement]] (MEM) 中华平民教育促进会 in [[Ding Xian]] (Ding County), [[Hebei]], some 200 miles south of Beijing.
The project was started in 1926 and lasted until the Japanese invasion of 1937. The county was to be a social laboratory in which to develop and demonstrate ways to raise the standard of living, health, political responsibility, and culture of the Chinese village.
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