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The importance of technical secondary education was recognised,
Zhao announcing that it should account for over 40% of total
senior middle school enrolment for the next five years. The
rest of education however is likely to remain neglected.
previously announced date for achieving universal primary
education, 1990, was not repeated in Zhao's report.
The
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Culture did not do well. While Zhao still recognised that
it was necessary to overcome leftist errors of the past, he more
than counterbalanced this by his strictures against "crass
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commercialism" and "bourgeois liberalism".
there have been calls for more works on modernising the economy,
the reorganisation of industry and the fight against decadence,
and strong warnings to follow socialist ideology more closely
and to avoid writing in too personal a style. This is hardly
the encouragement needed for producing a rich cultural menu.
Crime and Security
20. In his Report on the Work of the Supreme People's Court,
the Court's President Jiang Hua, interestingly announced that
the process of trying the followers of Lin Biao and the Gang
of Four had now been completed. While it is no doubt sensible
to draw a line under these old scores, at least one high target
seems curiously to have escaped. This is Mao Yuanxin, the
Chairman's nephew, who was arrested at the same time as the
Gang of Four and subsequently pilloried mercilessly in the
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