An editorial entitled "Continuing to Relax Control, and Implement the Policy of Letting a Hundred Flowers Bloom and a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend" was published in the People's Daily on April 10, 1957. Party and governmental organizations at all levels encouraged suggestions from ordinary people. The characters on the picture read "A Hundred Flowers Bloom and a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend". [Photo/Sina]