"Youth should fully realize the importance of their mission, for their motherland needs them, so do the people and the communist cause."

In 1977, the admissions conference of the institutions of higher learning was held in Beijing, making the decision to resume the college entrance examination system.

"Household responsibility system benefits all."——the slogan during the National Day parade on October 1st, 1984.

In the traditional Maoist organization of the rural economy, peasants were given a quota of crops to produce, which hindered the development of the productive forces. Under the responsibility system adopted in 1982, peasants were given drastically reduced quotas. The food they grew beyond the quota was sold on a free market at unregulated prices. This delivered instant success, quickly causing one of the largest increases in standards of living for such a large number of people in such a small period of time.

Students in the Peking University procession during the National Day celebrations on October 1st, 1984 hold a conspicuous banner, reading "Xiaoping Nin Hao", a hearty greeting to China’s central leader Deng Xiaoping, reflecting that the ordinary people began to regard leaders as men instead of gods.