During the ten years of turmoil, under the guidance of the instruction of the Shanghai People’s Government take all measures to protect the monastery, hinging on the wisdom and courage of cadres of government and neighbor units and masters in the monastery, all the halls were kept intact, and all the Buddha sculptures and paintings, sutras, and the main Buddhist appliance basically did not suffer the destruction. This was a rare case among the monasteries throughout China then.

During this period, all the monks scattered, and Master Wei Fang passed away in 1969. It relied entirely on Zhen Chan and other four masters who stayed in the monastery resolutely and made a living by pasting boxes that the monastery was not occupied and destroyed. In 1975, Master Zhen Chan received Master Yamada Etai, head of visiting delegating of the Japanese Tiantai Sect in the name of the director of the Relics Unit of the Jade Buddha Monastery and the Municipal Buddhist Association.

In September 1976, the monastery met another spring like the whole Buddhist circle throughout China. Since the third plenary session of the eleventh congress of the Chinese Communist Party, the policy of religious freedom was put into effect, the Jade Buddha Monastery in the new situation became revitalized and was on the way for further development.

In 1979, Master Zhen Chan was elected the chairman of Shanghai Buddhist Association and the abbot of the Jade Buddha Chan Monastery. He immediately tried his best to collect money to renovate the whole monastery and laid square bricks on the floor within the monastery. In 1985, all the Buddhas were repaired and on display. Some scenic spots were created in the renovation, such as the stone-carving tablets, such as The Forty-two-chapter Sutra in the calligraphy of Dong Qichang, the famous calligrapher in the Ming dynasty and the story of Sakyamuni becoming a Buddha, altogether in 24 tablets, the thirty-two incarnations of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva in 35 tablets drawn by famous painters in the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.