People were protesting the CCP and their control over intellectuals. The government just basically ignored it until a couple things happened. There would be a series of international events that would make them go. Yeah, no, no, you're done. You're done.
The Great Leap Forward of the People's Republic of China was an economic and social campaign led by the Chinese Communist Party from 1958 to 1962. CCP Chairman Mao Zedong launched the campaign to reconstruct the country from an agrarian economy into a communist society through the formation of people's communes. Instead it would result in the death of millions.
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