On December 18, 1986, Li Ruihuan, Deputy Secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee and Mayor of Tianjin, spoke at a forum attended by secretaries of Youth League Committees and cadres of student unions from universities and colleges in Tianjin and answered questions raised by the students and made it clear that the Party and the government would continue to adhere to the Four Cardinal Principles and that they disapproved of the student unrest. On December 22 he spoke at a meeting of leading members of government departments and of universities and colleges in Tianjin.