196810/0/5, People's Daily quoted Mao Zedong's relevant instructions in the editor's note of the article "Liuhe May 7th Cadre School provides new experience for the revolutionization of organs": "The decentralization of cadres is an excellent opportunity for cadres to re-learn." Since then, party and government organs all over the country have responded by opening May 7th Cadre School in rural areas. A large number of cadres, teachers, experts, literary and art workers and other intellectuals from party and government organs, institutions of higher learning, cultural, educational and scientific fronts were sent to the countryside to take part in manual labor in the May 7th Cadre School and receive re-education for poor peasants. The Central Committee and the State Council ministries and commissions, as well as Henan, Jiangxi, Hubei, Liaoning, Kyrgyzstan, Heilongjiang and other provinces 106 established106 May 7th cadre schools, with a total of more than 654.38 million decentralized cadres and their families. In order to carry out Mao Zedong's instructions, the May 7th Cadre School was established, which emphasized the importance of manual labor and opposed only paying attention to mental labor, thus cultivating a large number of intellectuals and cadres in all fields.
1February 7, 979, the State Council issued the "Notice on Issues Related to Closing the May 7th Cadre School", and the May 7th Cadre School in various places was closed one after another.