Zhejiang Daily is the official newspaper of the Zhejiang province's Party
Committee and the government. The fact that Li Yunhe's article was published
in an official newspaper indicated some degree of freedom for discussion of
these issues at that time. At the time of publication of the article, Li Yunhe was
Yongjia county's Deputy Party Secretary. He was, however, purged from the
party soon after that. He was later appointed the Deputy Director of the Rural
Policy Research Office of the Zhejiang provincial government in the 1980s.