6) Cancel Beijing's ten regulations against demonstrations.
7) Allow the public to know about the development of the student movement (Binyan 9).
While the students emphasized that their protest were a call for democracy, not all of their demands coincided with democratic principles. In actuality only the fourth, sixth and seventh represent conditions found within a democracy. The remaining demands dealt more with political corruption and a desire to see living conditions improve within China. Rather, the student leaders had "limited and very moderate aims {they} sought not to overthrow the government or even to form an opposition party, but only to win some measure of autonomy for themselves-and perhaps to encourage a long-term process of democratization within the ruling Communist Party in accordance with the Party's own proclaimed Marxian principles: (Meisner 403).
The flowing day police forced the students to disperse from the Square in preparation for HU's memorial service scheduled for April 21, 1989. The students left only to return the next morning in greater numbers. Additionally, groups of workers and intellectuals accompanied the students in order to participate in the demonstrations. Over one hundred thousand people gathered in Tiananmen Square to mourn Hu's death. As the students arrived, they began to organize into groups based on their University affiliations. Two Beijing University students emerged as the movement's leaders during the first few days, Wand Dan and Wuer Kaixi. .
The students declared a class boycott as the first means by which to press the government to concede their demands. For the next four days, the class boycott replaced demonstrations in the Square (Dietrich 280-282). The student's representatives requested a dialogue with Party officials in order to present their demands. Five student representatives kneeled for forty minutes in front of the Great Hall of the People, in an a attempt to persuade Party leaders to meet with them.
