 In the last stages of the Cultura Revolution, Yu Huiyong oversaw art production and anti-revisionist works in China, as the film "Chunmiao" (Spring Sprout), which was criticized by Deng Xiaoping as "ultra-leftist".All of this led him to be accused of being part of the Gang of Four plot, aspiring to be a vice-premier and CPC Politburo member.For that he was arrested in October 1976.