So he pulled out of negotiations with East China Normal University and decided instead to concentrate on building up Hong-Wen by hiring retired professors from Shanghai and Jiaotong universities to take administrative and teaching positions at the school. The professors concentrated on improving the students 'academic abilities, and helped them to prepare to take tests for university equivalency degrees.
因此打了退堂鼓，轉而強化原來的鴻文學院，延攬上海大學、交通大學的退休教授負責校務，加強學生學科能力，輔導他們參加大陸的國家學歷文憑考試，取得同等文憑。