When independent Chinese middle schools appeared ready to breathe their last in the early 1970s, a group of Chinese educationalists in the northern state of Perak, grappling with the problems of running such schools, decided that the only way forward was to change from being supplementary tuition schools to offering a comprehensive six-year academic curriculum. Perak's nine Chinese middle schools resolved to raise funds of RM1 million to assure their survival.
力挽狂瀾在「獨中」茍延殘喘的 70 年代初期，北馬霹靂州一群華教人士潛心檢討獨中辦學的問題，認為應該把現有補習學校的角色改為 6 年制完全中學才有出路，該州 9 所獨中一致通過籌募 100 萬馬幣基金的決議，以保衛獨中生存。