Though Mao Zedong had officially declared the end of the Cultural Revolution in the year 1969 itself, the reverberations of the revolution lasted as long as Mao was alive, i.e., until 1976.
Only after the death of Mao Zedong, other ideologies could surface and make place in real time administration.
Mao's death marked the rise of Deng Xiaoping and culminated in the Chinese economy coming back to normal and finally stabilizing.
