May 1, the Beijing Students' Autonomous Federation (BSAF) held a press conference for Chinese and foreign media journalists at the basketball court in front of the Peking University Library. Wang Dan and others presided over the meeting. More than 60 Chinese and foreign journalists, and more than 3,000 students, were present. At the meeting, the Peking University Preparatory Committee advocated establishing a "National Student Federation Preparatory Committee", and holding nationwide school strikes at higher education institutions.

On behalf of Peking University, Wang Dan read out the "Statement on Dialog Demands", which had been revised and added to based on Peking University's "Seven Points". The Demands were as follows:

1. Correctly evaluate Hu Yaobang's successes and failures.
2. Re-evaluate and report on the student movement in a fair and objective manner; investigate and punish the thoroughly deceitful excuses in Beijing that "disturbances had been created".
3. Punish those directly responsible for the April 20th beating incident.
4. Fight corruption & bribery; punish profiteering by officials; and resolve problems with Kanghua Inc. (formed by Deng Pufang, son of Deng Xiaoping).
5. Promulgate the Press Law as soon as possible to allow private newspapers to run, and support the request of Mr. Xu Simin (Tsui Sze-man), a Hong Kong newspaper reporter, to return to the mainland to run a private newspaper.
6. Increase education funding and improve the status of teachers. Publish the survey results from the three survey teams of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (PCC) National Committee regarding education funding in Beijing.
7. Review the government's major policy mistakes. The PCC National Committee must come forward to form an expert discussion group to analyze the reasons for inflation the previous year and other issues.

Afterwards, members of the BSAF read out several other statements. These included the "Beijing Students' Autonomous Federation Letter to Leaders of All Classes and People from All Circles of Life"; "Letter to Compatriots in Hong Kong"; "Open Letter to the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee, National People's Congress, and State Council from Well-Known People Across Society in the Capital Region"; "BSAF Letter to Compatriots in Colleges and Universities Around the Country"; and an "Open Letter to Domestic Students from Students Studying in the US".

References: "The Big Bang of History: A Complete Record of the June 4th Incident"; "A Tiananmen Journal"; "The Tiananmen Papers"