According to the Close-Up in Chapter 10,during the Great Cultural Revolution that began in China in 1978,
A) psychology, as a scientific and professional discipline, was elevated in status and used, among other ways, to strengthen China's military.
B) special education efforts were stepped-up in an effort to produce independent citizens capable of contributing to the common good.
C) all programs for the gifted were suspended as they were perceived as elitist in most areas of the People's Republic of China.
D) psychology, as a scientific and professional discipline, was completely eliminated from mainland China.

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The Great Cultural Revolution in China, which began in 1966 (not 1978 as mentioned in the question, which might be a typo or confusion with another event), led to the suppression of various intellectual and educational disciplines, including psychology. This period was marked by a movement against the "Four Olds" (old customs, culture, habits, and ideas), and many fields considered bourgeois or Western were targeted, resulting in the elimination of psychology as a scientific and professional discipline in mainland China.