During the Cultural Revolution, schools, colleges and universities were the focus of the Red Guards 'violence, destruction and looting, and overseas Chinese were declared "bad elements." Thus it is not hard to imagine how Jimei, as an educational campus located in an area which was home to many overseas Chinese, was seized upon as a "hornets' nest" to be cleaned out.
文革時期，「紅衛兵小將」打砸搶，學校本來就是運動最慘烈的地方，偏偏僑民又被打成「壞份子」；既是學村、又是僑鄉的集美，被揪出來「捅馬蜂窩」的下場可想而知。