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Post-Mao Period

The Post-Mao Period, 1976-78

After the arrest of the Gang of Four and the growing popularity of the new ruling triumvirate, viz. Hua Guofeng, Ye Jianying and Li Xiannian, Deng Xiaoping attempted to regain his power against the leftists who were then ruling the political system of China. In July 1977, the Central Committee demoralized Hua Guofengs legitimacy as a successor to Mao and contradicted Maos will. The committee also pardoned Deng Xiaoping from being accused of the Tiananmen Square incident. While Deng agreed about the faults he committed in the 1975 events, he was granted all the positions snatched away from him in 1976, at a Central Committee session.

In August 1977 at the Eleventh National Party Congress meeting, the first vote of confidence was given to the post-Mao poltical order. Hua was appointed as the Party Chairman, while Deng Xiaoping, Ye Jianying, Li Xiannian and Wang Dongxing were appointed as Vice Chairpersons. The Congress then formally declared the end of the Cultural Revolution with a notion that the fundamental task of the party in the new historical period is to build China into a modern, powerful socialist country by the end of the twentieth century. However, several contradictions were still observed regarding the Maoist inheritance and the occurrence of cultural revolutions in the future.

This was also not agreeable to Deng Xiaoping, who had actually brought in a genuine party reform and attempted to restructure the bureaucratic system and redirect policy after the National Party Congress. Even his dependent Hu Yaobang was elected as the head of the CCP Organization Department in place of Wang Dongxing, Huas supporter. Educational reforms were set and the verdicts of the Cultural Revolution period on art and literature were reversed. The reformers underwent a radical change during 1978. Major differences erupted between the two groups, one led by Hua Guofeng, and the other led by Deng and others, during the period February-March 1978. While Hua was insisting on more large-scale projects to be afforded by Chinese, the economy was facing serious disputes in regards to its improper development. The leftists (Huas forces) advocate dstrict resistance to Mao Zedong Thought in the wake of considerable losses in leadership positions and policy reforms. All Dengs associates were made to adopt Dengs reforms. It was during this time period that students were had raised huge protests with posters attaching Dengs rivals.

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