The Effects of Central Planning the Cultural Revolution in China.
The Cultural Revolution was launched in 1966 to manipulate and to lower the standards on the realm of the educated. The slow conversion from the Central Planning System to the New Economic Market to open up free trade affected China inadequately, leading China into chaos, such as the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. .
There is no determined reason why Mao Zedong, then Chairman of the Communist Party and the principal leader of China, unleashed millions of youths, soldiers and later adults, male and female against the historical, educational, artistic, musical, and cultural institutions and the people of China. In the mayhem, parts of many museums, universities, libraries and their books, statues, and even the Great Wall of China were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. These series of events came to be known as "The Great Proletarian Revolution" or the "ten lost years". While Japan, Hong Kong, and most of the world looked outward to world trade, modern living conditions, and industrialization, China tragically was not only turned inward, but was destroying itself from within. .
A large impact of the Cultural Revolution was on the youth of China, especially the university students who were young and idealistic and did not want to follow Mao's orders. "To a much greater extent than primary and middle schools, higher education suffered serious damage during the Cultural Revolution. The value of knowledge and schooling was generally downgraded or denied, and faculty members were subjected to harsh criticisms, deprivations, and, in many cases, physical abuse, torture, and murder." In the spring of 1967, the government ordered highly educated students to go out and communicate with workers and to partake in the Cultural Revolution. The students disliked these instructions, and attacked the part organization, which led to bloodshed by the Red Guards.
