 In 1952, the Communist Party of China regrouped the country's higher education institutions in an attempt to build a Soviet style system where each institution specialized in a certain field of study, such as social sciences or natural sciences.Tsinghua University was streamlined into a polytechnic institute with a focus on engineering and the natural sciences.From 1966 to 1976, China experienced immense sociopolitical upheaval and instability during the Cultural Revolution.