ABSTRACT
The mobilization phase of the Cultural Revolution ended in autumn 1968 with the forcible dispatch of a majority of the Red Guards to the countryside. Post-Cultural Revolution reports on university enrollment have begun to offer statistics containing the combined totals of all laboring people, rather than providing separate figures for students of worker-peasant background. As the new educational structure began to take shape beginning in 1970-1971, it became clear that the radicals supervising national educational policy sought to eliminate the old system that had favored the offspring of intellectuals and cadres. The new educational system abolished the university and middle school entrance examinations that had favored middle class youth. The rexnstitution of the key schools seemed certain to produce once again the phenomenon of competition by the secondary schools to raise their university promotion rates. Far from encouraging ordinary schools to seek keypoint status, many mediocre secondary schools are in the process of being transformed into technical or vocational schools.
