portunities. By the late 1980's grain production had begun to fall as corporations converted farm land in to other, more profitable businesses. The country was plagued with constant inflation and shortages of produce and essential items.
             By the late 1980's Chinese nationalists and intellectuals had taken enough abuse from their government. The idea of a capitalist reform that had once been praised was now turning China into a nation of debt, poverty, and unemployment. On April 15, 1989 the death of Hu Yaobang, a former party leader who had been removed from office two years earlier for supporting student protests for democratic reform, started off as a day of mourning but quickly turned into a large demonstration to illustrate the desire for increases in the education budget, a free press, the right to form student associations independent of the Communist Party and the re-installment of respect to intellectuals discredited for various anti-communist ideals. "The one, who should not die, died. T
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