Pan Chiping ...leading technical instruction and teaching apprentices, cultivating reserve forces for the nearly discontinued purple clay industry. In October 1955, the craft class of the Mingshan Purple Clay Craft Cooperative recruited its first batch of twenty-six students. Among them, Li Changhong, Shen Yinghua, Gao Yongjin, Bao Xiuyun, and Xu Xuan were assigned to study under Gu Jingzhou—later Shu Fengying also joined the group of students. In December 1956, the cooperative recruited a second batch of students. Gao Haigeng, Wang Yajie, Shi Jihua, and Wang Hongjun, who had previously studied under Wu Yungen, transferred to study under Gu Jingzhou. Thereafter, many students successively received technical guidance from Gu Jingzhou through different means and on different occasions. They gradually became the first core force in the restoration and revitalization of Yixing purple clay pottery after the founding of New China. "After the establishment of the cooperative, purple clay artisans finally had the opportunity to concentrate in well-equipped workshops for collective production, ending the long-standing situation of scattered production in individual households, working in front of stoves and beds."[1] The cooperative leveraged the advantages of collective production in terms of personnel, capital, raw materials, production, and sales. Through systematic division of labor and cooperation within the cooperative, they implemented planned production according to market demand. At the same time, the cooperative mode of production changed the past situation of "peers as rivals" and the "private ownership of techniques" among purple clay artisans during the process of teaching and learning crafts. --- [1] Liu Rulin, ed., *History of Yixing Purple Clay Pottery* (Jiangsu Province Yixing Ceramics Company, June 1978).