April 28, 1956 (March 18) Bingshen flourishing the contending principles proposed.


Mao Zedong met with Ba Jin (right), Zhou Xinfang (right),
Mao Zedong in the April 28, 1956, the enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Art issue & ldquo ; flourishing, academic issues, "a hundred schools of thought contend," should be the policy of the development of science in China, and prosperity of literature and art. This guideline proposed by Mao Zedong, the important principle determined by the CPC Central Committee on the work of science and culture. On May 26, the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee held a report will be made a presentation entitled "hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend" speech, Lu Ting on behalf of the CPC Central Committee to the intelligentsia, made a comprehensive exposition of this approach.