Zhao Shengxuan, Vice President and Deputy Party Chief of CASS, responded by pledging that the Academy would “treat political discipline as a criterion of the utmost importance in the assessment of academics.” Soon after, CASS President Wang Weiguang thundered in an essay that class struggle would never be extinguished in China.
中国社科院副院长、党组副书记赵胜轩对此的反应是保证社科院将“政治纪律作为首要因素”。不久，中国社科院院长王伟光刊出一篇奇文，称阶级斗争在中国永远不会停止。