Every Hundred Flowers Campaign is followed by an Anti-Rightist Campaign. Chairman Mao instituted the Hundred Flowers Campaign purportedly as a way to solicit c

Every Hundred Flowers Campaign is followed by an Anti-Rightist Campaign. Chairman Mao instituted the Hundred Flowers Campaign purportedly as a way to solicit community participation in building China's new communist society. The CCP assured everybody, hey, we're totally open to criticism, feel free to be open and honest, we could use your ideas for how to improve. The reality was made clear in the Anti-Rightist Campaign, in which critics of Mao's plan or regime were put on a list of those to be arrested as "rightists" and imprisoned or killed.