Generally, dormitories are collective houses in the village. Usually, only cadres who come on business live in it, and people in the village don't live in collective houses. Young people who go to the countryside are divided into two teams, men and women, and live in a big dormitory.
Some rural areas are more difficult and there is no collective housing. After coming here, cadres who go to the countryside will be assigned to live in farmers' homes. At that time, everyone's thoughts were highly unified and they all supported the decision of the CPC Central Committee, so everyone would readily agree that the cadres who went to the countryside lived in their own homes.
In terms of food, cadres who accompany them to the countryside generally also have food relations, which is equivalent to what we are talking about now. With this grain relationship, the superior will distribute grain to the village according to the head. Some difficult governments may let the village solve the problem of cadres' meals by itself, which is a great burden for the village, so many cadres do not have enough to eat.