After May Fourth, the student movement reached its first "low ebb". Wang Dan, Feng Congde, and Chai Ling were uncertain where the student movement should go, and there were also internal organizational problems. As a result, the three announced their withdrawals from the Preparatory Committee on the 5th. Feng Congde resigned at the same time as president of the Beijing Students' Autonomous Federation. In Feng Congde's book, "A Tiananmen Journal", he writes that the Beijing Students' Autonomous Federation "was an overarching organization established during a time when the different schools' autonomous associations hadn't consolidated – when most schools didn't even have a clear autonomous association, when there wasn't even grass-roots organization. Thus, there were issues with the BSAF's representativeness, and there was no effective system in place to execute and complete its decisions… It was like putting up a building on a beach: Although you can climb high and see far, there is no solid foundation to support it. For leaders high aloft in such a structure, it is easy to make the mistake of 'expressing personal opinions in the name of the organization'."

After this point, the dialog mission was entrusted to the Beijing University Student Dialog Delegation that had been established on May 3. On May 7, the Delegation met at China University of Political Science and Law to discuss dialog strategies and prepare for the anticipated dialog.

References: Wang Dan, "The Memoirs of Wang Dan — From June 4th to Exile"; Feng Congde, "A Tiananmen Journal"; [自由亞洲電台("Radio Free Asia")(Chinese)] (https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/ytbdzhuantixilie/6430/64-05062019122154.html)