While some Socialists did view price protests as a direct step toward socialism, most Socialists ultimately sought to divert the cost-of-living movement into alternative channels of protest.
Yet the programme was an immensely daring attempt to take on old orthodoxies, but also to use China'spast (the May Fourth Movement) to advocate an alternative path.
Due to alternative occurrence of floods and droughts as well as the influence of neo-tectonic movement, the channels of rivers in Horqin Sandy Land change frequently.