Let a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend, referred to as the policy of letting a hundred flowers blossom, is a basic policy put forward by China Producers Party after the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC).

The second direction is that literature and art should "serve the people and socialism". This is the general slogan of new literary and artistic work put forward according to the new historical situation and tasks after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party.