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Beijing Spring
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<p>The Beijing Spring refers to a brief period of political <a href="/facts/Liberalization/0xuv5oaN">liberalization</a> during the "<a href="/facts/Boluan_Fanzheng/kPxEuClR">Boluan Fanzheng</a>" period in the <a href="/facts/People%27s_Republic_of_China/lTjIXY5p">People's Republic of China</a> (PRC). It began as the <a href="/facts/Democracy_Wall/kv0nWo74">Democracy Wall</a> movement in <a href="/facts/Beijing/Bg4puFBv">Beijing</a>, which occurred in 1978 and 1979, right after the end of the <a href="/facts/Chinese_Cultural_Revolution/1EAQGgYk">Chinese Cultural Revolution</a>. The name is derived from "<a href="/facts/Prague_Spring/gfPPc56L">Prague Spring</a>", an analogous event which occurred in <a href="/facts/Czechoslovakia/9A6Kzmr0">Czechoslovakia</a> in 1968. </p>