"Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom, Let a Hundred Thoughts Flourish", was the theme of a campaign initiated by Mao Zedong in 1956-57 to 'de-mask the intellectuals' within the Communist Party.
In the seventies, several foreign leaders (like President Pompidou of France who was the first European Head of State to visit China in 1973) believed that Mao's regime was opening up.

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