The second leg of reform was to "change people." Almost all opera scholars threw themselves into the effort to reform the way opera troupes went about their affairs, and Chinese opera academies turned out large numbers of graduates with uniformly high skills. Opera troupes enjoyed much better conditions back then in the PRC than was the case in Taiwan, where Taiwanese Opera troupes were left to their own devices.
接著改「人」，幾乎所有的學者都投身在劇團的實務工作改革上，加上劇校培養出來水準整齊的演員，超前於當時台灣自生自滅的歌仔戲環境。