Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese art has never had any clear orientation.
People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It's an unbearable condition.