On April 1, 1919, Chinese delegates attending the Paris Peace Conference protested against the Anglo-American-French Trilateral Conference's solution to the Shandong issue. In November 1918, the First World War ended. In January 1919, the victorious powers held a "peace conference" in Paris. The Beijing government appointed Lu Zhengxiang, Gu Weijun, Wang Zhengting, Shi Zhaoji, and Wei Chenzu as plenipotentiaries attending the Paris Peace Conference. At the meeting, the Japanese representative proposed that Japan inherit all the rights and interests of German aggression in Shandong. On February 3, provincial residents in Beijing, in the name of the Chinese National Diplomatic Association, provincial councils, chambers of commerce, and education associations, called the Chinese representatives of the Paris Peace Conference to demand the recovery of all German rights in Shandong. On February 9, 1,500 students from Beijing called the Chinese representatives, asking to "maintain national rights". Under the impetus of the Chinese people, the Chinese representatives proposed at the meeting to take back Germany's rights in Shandong and to abolish Article 21. However, the United Kingdom, the United States, and France, out of consideration of sharing the spoils with Japan, ignored China's sovereignty and rights as a victorious country, and decided that Japan should inherit Germany's rights and interests in Shandong. This triggered the subsequent "May 4th Movement" and opened the prelude to China's new democratic revolution.