THE DOCUMENTS FOUND HERE ARE SECRET FORMS FROM CHINA'S SECURITY SECTOR

Religion and National Security in China:  Secret documents from China’s security sector


February 11, 2002 

Edited By Shixiong Li, Xiqiu(Bob) Fu




Contents
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PART ONE SEVEN CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS
About the Sources of the Documents 
An Interview With A Senior Scholar on China Affairs 
An Introduction: Religious Freedom and the Chinese Churches 
Document One The Ministry of Public Security of the Peoples’ Republic China
Document Two The Bulletin of the Department of Anhui Public Security
Document Three The Office of the Public Security Bureau of Anhui Province
Document Four Announcement From the Shijiazhuang Public Security Bureau
Document Five The Public Security Bureau of Heilongjiang Province
Document Six The “Real God ” Cult: Their Activities and Work Requirements
Document Seven The Public Security Bureau of Beijing

PART TWO APPENDICES
Appendix A The Arrest and Torture of the Leaders of South China Church 
Appendix B The 63 Recently Arrested Leaders from South China Church
Appendix C Three Christian Women Detailed Their Tortured Experience
Appendix D The Truth About Li Bao-zhi “Cult” case in Liaoning Province
Appendix E The Depositions From Three Imprisoned Church Leaders




FOREWORD

For many years now, the sponsors of this booklet have shouted out two basic truths about Christians in China to anyone
that will listen. Without knowledge of these two truths no one can truly understand, nor effectively assist, the Christian
community of China. Both are hotly denied by the Chinese government. They are:

1. That underground or unregistered Christians - Catholic and Protestant -vastly outnumber those Christians belonging to
the official churches. Literally scores of millions of China's Christians prefer to remain in illegal gatherings rather than submit
to the invasive monitoring involved in government registration and mandatory membership in party-run "Patriotic" religious
organizations. Their desire to run their own churches has resulted in them being called "house churches," as they traditionally
hold their meetings in believer's homes.

2. That the level of persecution aimed against unregistered Christians in China is very high. This campaign against "illegal
organizations" is centrally directed, and involves Maoist-style propaganda, and which fosters Cultural-Revolution-levels of
surveillance, and interference and police abuses including torture.

But due to the underground nature of the plight of these Christians, observers have difficulties in proving the importance
and numbers of the underground religious organizations and the government's harsh response. To prove these truths would
require us to bring victims up into the media spotlight, exposing them to further persecution. And documentary evidence has
been hard to uncover due to the covert nature of the government campaign.

This booklet is in some ways a celebration that this latter problem, at least, is no longer the case. The secret is out! Here
are documents that clearly prove the second of our truths - that the persecution against underground Christians and others
has escalated and originates at the highest central levels of the Chinese government, which alone can make the decision to
ban a social group.

China's new tactic of cracking down on so-called "cults” is in great part a smokescreen for persecuting believers whose
only "crime" is to keep their distance from government-controlled religion. It raises the stakes from civil disobedience (not
registering, punishable by fines) or even disturbing social order (punishable by fines or minimal incarceration) to threatening
national security (punishable by up to life sentences or even death). This tactic of labeling religious groups as "cults", and
thus punishing them under the criminal code, has increasingly become a tactic employed in the late 1990's, enabling
government spokespersons to maintain the useful fiction that arrested and jailed believers are not falling foul of restrictive
religious laws, but are mere criminals disrupting public and social order laws.

So-called "heretical" teaching does take place among some of China's Christian communities. Indeed most major house
church movements, as well as the registered churches, are active in combating it. But it is our firm belief that the best way
to fight heresy is to give Chinese Christians the

freedom to teach their scriptures, publish study materials, train their teachers, and gather their people without fear. The
growth of heresy in China today is in large part the fault of the government, intent on keeping these communities deprived of
Scriptures and books, unable to conduct training seminars, and isolated from the worldwide religious communities who want
to help.

The documents have emerged partly as a result of the disgust of some members of China's security services with their
own government's anti-religious policy and practices, and partly as a result of the desperation of suffering Christians, who
know that after being labeled a "cult" they have nothing to lose.

You will find two types of documents in the booklet. The first are government documents, and they make chilling reading. 
They talk of "banishing, purifying, searching, educating, converting and controlling" Christians and other unregistered groups.
More astonishingly, these documents show clearly this so-called “anti-cult” campaign had been directed by the central
authorities of the Chinese Communist Party including Mr. Jia Chunwang, the former head of China’s KGB and now the
Minister of Ministry of Public Security and Mr. Luo Gan, member of the Central Politburo and secretary of the Central
Political and Legal Commission. There is even a secret directive from Mr. Hu Jin-tao, member of the Standing Committee of the Central Political Bureau and Vice-Chairman who has been seen as the likely successor of President Jiang Zemin. Further, the documents employ a sort of Big Brother cynical doublespeak. Where we would speak of visiting the believers, they call that "infiltration." Where we could speak of encouragement, they call it "incitement." Support becomes "bribes"; fellowship gathering in homes becomes "illegal criminal activity," and so on.

What is so worrisome is that if any group of Christians in China today choose to worship independent of government control, the rules are so loosely interpreted that someone only has to shout "cult" and suddenly their leaders are facing capital charges, under surveillance and investigation, and their members are being tortured by police to get evidence. For example central guidance in these documents list five characteristics of a "cult," yet call for investigation of any groups with even one of them.

Yet even the government's own guidelines are ignored to sustain the campaign. For example one key document says that
in order for a cult to be declared the members must deify their leader. Yet the 50,000 members of the South China church
are merely guilty of enormous respect for their leader, Gong ShengLiang. Yet the cult label has been slapped upon them
nevertheless. As one policeman told the court in the Liaoning case, "cults are anti-government. It is anti-government not to
join the TSPM, so this groups is anti-government."

The second group of documents originate from persecuted Christians themselves, and reveal how all this close "attention
to law" and "respect for public order" the government documents boast of, actually works in practice. Policemen are given
carte blanche to torture and mutilate defenseless women with electric cattle prods. Trial courts - if they are even employed
- condemn plaintiffs on the flimsiest of evidence, and damming confessions are obtained though beatings sleep deprivation
and intimidation.

This must stop!

It is our fervent prayer and hope that the publication of these documents will further awaken all people to the reality that
the world's second largest church, comprising some 60-90 million Christians, is also the world's largest persecuted Christian
community! And with this anti-cult campaign already moving into a higher gear, persecution is set to rapidly increase.

We must do all we can…NOW!

What can you do? 

There are ascending steps to help bring religious freedom to China.

1. Go into your local church, synagogue or mosque and ask them to read this booklet. Ask them to write to one of the
groups sponsoring this booklet and to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom.

2. Pray for the safety and work of Mr Shixiong Li, Bob Fu and Committee for Investigation on Persecution of Religion in
China (CIPRC). 

Read their update reports at www.ReligiousFreedomForChina.org

3. Pray for the people of China and those listed in the booklet that have been arrested and sentenced, some to death.

4. You yourself write to your local Senator and Representative, asking them to take an interest in pressing for religious
freedom in China.

5. Write, Call and e-mail the White House. 

Address: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC20500
Tel: +1-202-456-1414
E-mail: President@whitehouse.gov

6. Organize your church to observe the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted.

7. Join the organizations listed in the booklet. They will supply you with news, updates, and action steps to assist those
who are being persecuted for their religious beliefs.

Please take action in whatever way you can to help the suffering Christians of China. Your intervention may save lives,
shorten sentences, and bring the goal of religious freedom in China a little nearer. Millions of Chinese Christians will thank
you for any effort you can make. And so do we.


Yours sincerely,

Mr. Tom White, Director The Voice of the Martyrs

Mr. Terry Madison, President Open Doors with Brother Andrew

Mr. Jeff Taylor, Managing Editor Compass Direct News Service

Mr. Danny Smith, Director Jubilee Campaign U.K

Mr. Shixiong Li, President Committee for Investigation on Persecution of Religion in China, Inc. 

About the Sources of the Documents 

An official of China’s Ministry of State Security provided half of the documents. Several other officials located in different
positions within China’s public security organizations provided the other documents.

Needless to say, the potentially high penalty for providing these documents means that these officials had a very strong
motivation to do so. The official at the National Security Ministry developed a very troubled conscience over the policies and
actions against peaceful Chinese religious groups. He subsequently left his position, gave up the documents to our Committee and went into hiding.

All of the officials who gave documents to the Committee expressed particular grievance with how the Chinese government
proclaimed legal protections for religious Chinese while secretly giving orders to persecute a wide range of religious groups.
They saw that their superiors knew that their orders resulted in many physical and psychological abuses. The disjuncture
between the government’s public professions of commitment to religious freedom and its private policies and actions against
peaceful Chinese in religious groups proved too much for these officials to bear. Receiving little response to reform efforts
within the security ministries, these officials decided to make public these documents to objectively tell the story of the
government’s religious policies and practices. 

Committee for Investigation on Persecution of Religion in China




An Interview With A Senior Scholar on China Affairs

January 28, 2002

The following interview was conducted with a senior scholar of Chinese politics and policy-making who travels to China frequently and has closely observed developments there for decades.

QUESTION Has China's entrance into the WTO (World Trade Organization) and the granting of PNTR (Permanent
Normal Trading Rights) had an affect on the treatment of unregistered religious groups in China?

ANSWER: Yes, but not exactly the impact discussed by the media. Most commentary has focused on how the US
Government lost "leverage" and more persecution has resulted from China being admitted into the WTO. First, the annual
debate in the U.S. Congress over NTR had not provided "leverage" on China's human rights behavior since the mid-1990s. 
There is now a new forum for the debatethe Congressional-Executive China Commission, with its first hearing on February
7--which may have more influence. 

Second, China’s tighter controls on all unregistered social organizations, including religious groups, is not due to greater
opportunity as much as greater fear of loss of control over a more open society as WTO reforms take affect. So in a way
the current wave of persecution is proof that WTO WILL gradually increase freedom in China. Chinese, including
Christians, welcome WTO and related reforms. The challenge is to find better ways of influencing Chinese behavior in the
short term. 


QUESTION: What is the significance of the Chinese government documents included in this report?

ANSWER: They show that the government is not just fighting crime and cults, but is secretly targeting a long list of
"potential enemies." This list includes unregistered but orthodox Catholics and Protestants, and security forces are also
keeping tabs on businesses and leading universities, as well as foreign foundations and exchange programs.

The documents also show that central government policy actually encourages extreme measures. Pressure on local
governments to produce results, large financial rewards, and no punishment for abuses all work to produce police violence,
terror tactics and harsh sentences. In the documents, superiors call on police to instill terror, and in one case study, a
policeman brags of being a “fascist,” clearly not fearing any reprimand. This escalation over the past two years, despite the
obvious risks to China's international reputation, suggests to me that the fear of social and political instability must have some strong basis in fact. It also shows a lack of understanding of social change and how to deal with it creatively. Harsh
policies actually produce the social conflict and radicalism that the government claims to be fighting against. 


QUESTION: Why does the Chinese government fear the growth of unregistered religious groups inside China?

ANSWER: Their real concern is with any social group that can organize itself effectively, shows the potential to grow
rapidly across provincial lines, and has foreign ties. Those are really the main "crimes" of some of these so-called "heretical
cults."

There is also a long history in China of social chaos arising from religious or spiritual movements, which people join for help
and comfort in desperate, hard times. In the past decade, social inequalities have been growing; more and more people in
rural areas and laid-off workers in state factories are losing out with the growth of poorly-regulated capitalism in China’s
economy. So it is quite legitimate for the government to be concerned about the growth of coercive and destructive cults. 
But in the effort to make sure that social disturbances and political protests remain small and isolated, the government has
taken extreme measures. The real question here is due process--whether justice is being done, and whether police or court
abuses are punished. To ban whole groups and seize or destroy their assets, rather than punishing only those truly guilty of
crimes, is bound to produce injustices. 


QUESTION: What is your opinion of recent talk in China of offering government registration to unregistered house
churches?

ANSWER: My understanding is that this was one component of a new draft national regulation on religion, which has not
yet been published. They may allow churches to register directly with the Religious Affairs Bureau without having to join
the official "patriotic" religious organization. It is hard to judge whether this is a major improvement until we know what
conditions may be attached. For example, a recent national conference on religion said that Party leadership of religion must
be strengthened; how will that be done without the “patriotic” Party organizations in control? I’m also wondering whether
the urgent “anti-cult” campaign is an attempt to dissolve the groups the government doesn't want to register. 


QUESTION: Does the arrest and trial of Hong Kong businessman Li Kwong Keung for alleged Bible smuggling represent
an increase in religious persecution in formerly-free Hong Kong?

ANSWER: Since he was arrested for actions in China rather than in Hong Kong, this technically doesn't represent a
change in Hong Kong's autonomy. However, it has alarmed people there and highlighted the great differences in the legal
systems that will continue to cause problems. China has responded to external concern by reducing the sentences greatly,
from death to two-three years in prison plus fines. Nevertheless, this case serves as more pressure on Hong Kong to draft
an anti-cult law. 


QUESTION: What do you think will happen in the case of Gong Shengliang, leader of the South China Church who is
currently appealing a death sentence?

ANSWER: Luckily for Pastor Gong as well as Mr. Li, they were able to get the word to the outside world about their crisis
situations on the eve of President Bush's visit to China. Once these cases were brought to the attention of the central
government, they could no longer be hidden or denied. I am hopeful that there will be a review of the terrible police abuses in
the South China Church case and perhaps humanitarian releases of these believers. But more often, lesser sentences are
still applied, as with Mr. Li and his contacts. Rarely will a court decision be overturned altogether. 


QUESTION: What actions could the U.S. government take that would result inincreased religious freedom in China?

ANSWER: The USG as usual raises urgent cases directly with Chinese officials, and carries on the regular official human
rights dialogue and joint project on rule of law. But I think it is critical to build solid cooperation with other countries,
especially in Asia, and to speak in terms of international, not American, norms when it comes to human rights. Otherwise,
we really don’t get results. 

Given the situation we face ourselves in light of September 11, there is a need and an opportunity for the US, China and
others to take a close and unbiased look at vague and negative definitions of “cults” and “religious extremism” or
“fundamentalism” and how they relate to national security. The French law against sects, for example, has encouraged the
Chinese to step up their war on “cults,” and Beijing also seeks to justify a broader attack on dissenting Muslims in Western
China by labeling them "terrorists,” something the US cannot condone. 


QUESTION: What can the average American do to have an affect on the treatment of Christians in China? 

ANSWER: Chinese Christians always ask for prayer, not against persecution, but for perseverance in suffering. Beyond
that, I think that non-political interventions would be more helpful and less dangerous for them. It seems to me that the first
recourse of Americans is to expect the federal government to solve the problems of religious rights, as though there are no
other influential actors in US-China relations. Just as some people noted that Chinese leaders seemed more excited to meet
Bill Gates than Bill Clinton, there are many influential groups with clout in China...from investors to educators to NGOs
providing disaster relief or development assistance. Many of these are international, not solely American. They need to be
made aware of the problem and asked to be part of the solution. Similarly, there are many in China, from different sectors
of society, including Christians in the official church and other house church groups, who need to come to the aid of the
persecuted.

An Introduction:  Religious Freedom and the Chinese House Churches

Shixiong Li

The documents in this booklet are highly important for understanding the situation of all religions in China. Our Committee
has also focused on the situation of the Chinese House Churches as a test case for determining the extent of religious
freedom in China. Because they believe that the state-sponsored churches are actually ways of restricting and discouraging
Christian belief and practice, most of the House Churches have declined to register with the government. 

I. The Constitutional Protection of Religious Freedom in China

The 36th Article in the "Constitution" of the People’s Republic of China states:

“Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of religious belief. No state organ, public organization, or individual may compel citizens to believe in, or not to believe in, any religion; nor may they discriminate against citizens who believe in, or do not believe in, any religion. Religious bodies and religious affairs are not subject to any foreign domination.”

According to the Chinese government’s religious affairs white paper in October 1997, "All the religious activities at a
religious site and religious traditions at believers' places, such as...Sunday worship, prayer, Bible study, sermon, mass,
baptism...etc., that are administrated by religious organizations and believers, are protected by law, and no one is to
interfere...For those Christians who follow the religious tradition to hold meetings at their homes mainly for relatives and
friends (the Christians in China call these meetings house churches), their prayer meetings, Bible studies and so forth do not
require registration." But "in order to protect public welfare and justice, and to better protect religious freedom and normal
religious activities, China's law enforcement punishes according to the law actions that are not related to any religious belief. 
In China, no one is to be punished due to religious belief."

So, based on these standards, the Committee for Investigation on Persecution of Religion in China completed this
publication. Although our investigation touched upon the conditions of thousands of house churches throughout China, we
have only scratched the surface. Further, similar conditions affect other religious groups in China. Because the task is very
large and dangerous, researchers have not been able to get accurate or complete information. This booklet contains some
material for the beginning of an objective view of the situation of religious groups in China.

According to our investigation among House Church Christians, at this time there are 23,686 persons who have
been arrested for religious activities, 4,014 persons sentenced to re-education, 129 persons killed, 208 persons handicapped,
997 persons placed under surveillance, 1,040 persons on the run, 20,000+ beaten, 10,000 fined (ranging from $.50 to
$800,000). Thousands of Christians worry that they have to meet together as if they were little burglars. Too often, the
Chinese government has used improved trade relations with the U.S. to build its power and financial resources to defeat
human conscience and righteousness. But God carries out the ultimate judgment.

II. Propaganda and Policy

Even today, the Chinese Government propaganda sometimes claims that "religion is opium" and a tool to attack
China. With such language the government is evoking memories of the trade of opium that led to the "Opium War" with the
Western powers. The word "opium" has a special meaning to most Chinese and arouses their wariness. 

Chairman Mao Zedong claimed that the Western powers had fomented a religious plot. In order to deprive the
Chinese people’s spirit, the imperialists used their "missions, hospitals, schools, newspapers and oversea students, etc." So,
Mao coined the slogans: "That is to subordinate to their culture and to fool the entire Chinese;" and "Do not be deceived by
imperialism, do not stand at the enemy's side!" When Communism gained power, the Chinese people were encouraged to
flee religion as if it were opium. 

Zhou Enlai, who ran daily affairs, announced the government’s religion policy: "Our policy is to protect religious
freedom. But among the Christians and Catholics all over the country there have been found spies sent from the
imperialists." After this, Zhou four times convened China Christians Leaders Discussions to emphasize, " The biggest
problem in Christianity is its relationship with imperialism.”

Today’s paramount leader Jiang Zemin also says that religion is an important affair. Although conditions for religion
have improved in China, Jiang has also said that "toward religion, it should be as Lenin's attitudes: ‘very careful,’ ‘highly
serious,’ and ‘full consideration’.” After Jiang gave his speech, the Party Central announced a warning to all Party members that they could only “be atheists, believers of Marxism and Mao's ideology. It is not permitted to believe in any religion or to participate in any religious activities.” Otherwise, that would be “straying from the Party's norm, weakening the power within the Party.” Of course, this takes away the Constitutional right that “The state protects normal religious activities. No one may make use of religion to engage in activities that disrupt public order, impair the health of citizens or interfere with the educational system of the state.”

III. Practice

In order to find out the truth about religious freedom in China, our committee has undertaken a wide investigation into the conditions of house churches in 22 provinces, 207 cities and numerous villages. Supposedly, these house churches are "under the protection of the law, and no one is allowed to intervene." However, the government’s actual treatment of them goes back to how the Chinese government originally began to persecute Christians.

Religious belief is simultaneously a way of expression toward God and a way to go into our hearts. Indeed, the freedom of belief is our ultimate freedom to approach our own souls. However, since the Communist Revolution, Chinese Christians have faced the decision of believing in God or the Party. The result of following God usually has meant persecution. The mental and physical aspects of the believers were chewed up. They were jailed, fired from their jobs, re-educated in labor camps, enslaved, families broken up and put to death. They have lived their days with worries and fright. 

For those church leaders who believed in Communism, they were promoted to leadership. They were far away from being in jail. "The China Christian Three-Self Movement Committee,” “The Chinese Catholic Patriotic Society” and so forth were gradually established under this environment. For most of the PRC’s history, the Party wanted all the believers not only to obey to the Communists, but also to become tools for Communism. This is to let all people know that “If the enemy does not surrender, they have to perish.”

There were some Christians who held firm to the truth and never surrendered to the power. These included Watchman Nee (Ni Tuosheng), the founder of the “Little Flock” house church network, and Wang Mingdao, a famous pastor in Beijing. During twenty years in prison, Watchman Nee experienced all kinds of suffering and tests. The Communists took away his life but not his faith. And he became the brightest testimony among Chinese. 

In 1942, Wang Mingdao refused to join in a so-called “Three-Self Church” which was coordinated by the Japanese Imperial invaders. The Japanese established "The Northern China Christianity Association” that said “do not rely on Great Britain and the USA for existence, be independent, connect with other denominations to promote evangelical ministries, self-supporting, self-financing, self-evangelical.” Thirteen years later, Wang again refused to join a “Three-Self Church,” this time under the Communist Party. As a result, the Communist Party organized a nationwide call to all Christians in China to stand against Wang as an anti-Communist. In August 1955 the day after his preaching on the message that “The Son of God would be betrayed in the hands of sinners,” he was arrested. 

Within the church, false accusations were made to justify persecution of non-conforming Christian leaders and believers. As a result, many leaders and believers were arrested, suicided, died in prisons, and received life sentences. The church leaders who served under the control of the Chinese government claimed that they were fighting for church unity. However, they lost the respect as pastors before most Chinese Christians. They dreamed for the Pope position so that they could become the number one leader in the religion field. The first Three-Self leader Wu Yaozong said, "God has taken the key of salvation away from the church and given it to the Communist Party." Later, Bishop Ding Guangxun called for Christians to "unite with the people... to hate what they hate". So, up to today, many Christians believe that the Three-Self Church’s first loyalty is to the nation, and then to the church. They have been unwilling to enter into this type of control. This is the origin of the House Churches.

IV. The Revival of House Church and the Government’s Attack 

The Opening Policy has allowed the seeds of the Chinese church to give new spouts. Particularly in Henan, Anhui, Hebei, and Shandong, God has raised numerous followers seeking truth and waiting joyfully for the Holy Spirit. They preach the Gospel, give hope to the hopeless, and let the Chinese people see the light again.

In the past, the Party could undertake persecution without giving any reason, but since the Opening Policy has allowed foreigners to come in, persecution cannot be as easily covered up. The foreigners include those human rights advocates who work in the United Nations and some westerners who make thorough investigations. So, the Chinese government now has added criminal accusations against the House Church leaders, calling them heretics, rapists, and liars. If some house churches do not join the Three-Self Church, they are named heretics, their male leaders rapists, and their female leaders liars. In the face of these accusations, the western investigators can’t say anything. We hope that this booklet will further the freedom and development of the Chinese soul, protect religious human rights and aid human rights investigators.

Document I
Classified: secret document 
The Ministry of Public Security of the Peoples’ Republic China (Notice)[1] 

Ministry of Public Security[2] [2000] No.39

Notice On Various Issues Regarding Identifying and Banning of Cultic Organizations

To Public Security offices and bureau of all provinces, autonomous regions[3], metropolises[4] and those at the Xinjiang
production and construction regiments:[5]

Pursuant to the spirit of [the document] “Opinion On Relevant Issues Concerning Dealing With some Socially Harmful
Qi Gong Organizations” issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council” (Central
Directive [2000] No.5), and in accordance with the “ Decisions On Banning of Cult Organizations, Preventing and Punishing
Cult Activities” issued by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress,” with reference to the [document]
“Interpretations On Relevant Issues on the Application of the Law Concerning Dealing With Criminal Cases Involving
Organizing and Utilizing Cult Organizations” issued by Supreme Court and the Supreme Procuratorate,[6]” this notice is
issued in response to relevant issues concerning the identification and banning of cult organizations as follows:

1. Any organization with the following characteristics shall be identified as a cult[7]:

a. Those which sets up illegal organizations in the name of religion, Qigong, etc;

b. Those which deify their leaders;[8]

c. Those which initiate and spread superstitions and heterodox beliefs[9];

d. Those that utilize various means to fabricate and spread superstitions and heterodox [or cultic] beliefs to excite doubts and deceive the people, recruit and control its members by means. 

e. Those that engage in disturbing social order in an organized manner that brings injury to the lives and properties of the citizens.[10]


2. The identification of cultic groups shall be done by the Public Security Offices [local or prefecturral], the Public Security Bureau [provincial] and the Public Security Ministry [national] of the different provinces, autonomous regions and the metropolises in accordance with the different situations of the activities of the cultic organizations in each location.

Those cultic organizations which engage in their activities in a certain province shall be identified [as cultic] by the Public
Security Bureau of that province or autonomous region, and metropolises, after they have been identified by the [local public
security offices]. Those cultic groups that carry on their work across the provinces, autonomous regions, etc. shall be identified as cults by the Ministry of Public Security [of the central government].[11]

3. When an organization is being suspected of as involved in cult activity, local public security authorities shall immediately conduct investigation, to find out their basic situation and collect necessary criminal evidences. When they consider such an organization fitting the characteristics defined for a cult, the local public security authorities shall submit a written report to Public Security Bureau or office of that province, or autonomous region, and or the metropolis [to which they belong].

After the provincial level of the public security bureau have verified the report after further investigation and confirmed the report based on the different situations of the group’s activities, it should report [its findings] to the [national] Ministry of Public Security requesting it to approve [the group as legal] or to accept its recommendations. 

The Ministry of Public Security shall, after having examined and the recommendations, related evidences submitted by
provincial level of public security authorities, approve [as legal] or confirm [such groups as cultic].[12]

4. The task of banning the cultic organizations shall be carried out by the local public authorities where such cults appear.[13] 

5. The assets, properties owned by a cult organization, as well as goods and tools used for cult activities shall be searched and confiscated according to law. The houses used for cult activity shall be sealed up and confiscated according to law.

6. With respect to the suspected organization, the organizers who use the cultic organization to conduct criminal activities, the planners, the director of such activities and their core members shall be subject to investigation for their criminal responsibility. For those who voluntarily surrender to the authorities or perform any meritorious services, can receive recommendation for reduction or exemption from punishment, when the case is transferred to People’s Procuratorate for prosecution.

7. After a cult organization is banned, those core members who were engaged in the organization and communication with respect to cultic activities shall be ordered to register themselves at the designated public security authorities within the time limit granted to them and terminate their former relations [with their former cultic group] in repentance. For the ordinary people who were deceived or coerced into participating in cultic activities, they shall not be considered members of the cult, and they need not be registered. They should not be dealt with and treated as members of the cult organization.[14]

8. In the process of banning the cult organizations and punishing cult activity according to law, we should persistently unite
and educate the majority of the deceived ordinary people, helping them to fully realize the harm the cult organization inflicts,
to oppose the cult self-consciously, to break away from them, and resist their control and influence, heighten the concepts of
legality and obey the State law.

Attachment: Information on organizations currently identified as cults.

Seal: Ministry of Public Security of PRC 

April 30th, 2000

Key words: cult organization, identification, and banishment

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Copies sent to:

General Office of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party 

General Office of the State Council

Central Committee of Political and Legal Commission, 

The Supreme Court

The Supreme Procuratorate, 

The Ministry of State Security, 

The Ministry of Civil Affairs, 

Ministry of Justice, 

The State Bureau of Religious Affairs

The Legal Office of the State Council, 

The Party Committee of Ministry of Public Security, 

The General Office of Ministry of Public Security:.

1st, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 10th, 12th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 18th bureau

(Total number of copies printed: 500, with 3 copies kept in the archives)

General Office of Ministry of Public Security

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Comments by the annotator: this is a very important policy document in that it is a comprehensive directive from the national Ministry of Public Security to all the public security offices at the provincial level (including the autonomous regions and the metropolises, and through them to the prefectural offices) issued as a directive to them on how to identify religious groups as cults as well as the procedure for implementation. It follows the party administrative hierarchical structure. While the national Ministry of Public Security has made the final decision on which group is a cult, there is practically no provision for checking how this identification process is one at the local level, nor is there any opportunity for the people involved to state their case.

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Information Regarding the Organizations Already Identified As Cults

Since 1979, successions of illegal organizations have sprung up in China under the banner of religion, which were infiltrated from abroad or established by lawless persons within China. Since 1983 the Ministry of Public Security has, on several occasions concentrated on the investigation and banishment of these illegal organizations, and has effectively contained the momentum of their crawling dangers and harm. In November 1995, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Chinese Community Party (CCP) and the General Office of the State Council have forwarded “Notice by the Ministry of Public Security Concerning the Banning of the ‘ Shouter Sect” and Other Cult Organizations and Opinions on their Situation and Operations” (ting zi [1995] No.50). The General Office of the Central Committee of the CCP and General Office of the State Council identified these organizations as cults, calling the PBS to engage in tasks for further investigation and banning [of cultic organizations]. So far, 14 organizations have been identified as confirmed cult organizations. Seven of them have been identified by General Office of the Central Committee of CCP and the General Office of the State Council, while the other seven have clearly been identified by the Ministry of Public Security.

I. Seven cults identified in the documents issued by General Office of the Central Committee of CCP and by the General Office of the State Council:

1.The Shouters[15] 

“ The Shouters, ” also called as “ Church of God” or “Local Assembly”, was founded by Li Chang-shou in the United
States in 1962. It infiltrated into China in 1979. Till 1983 this sect has already spread to 360 counties, cities in 20 provinces
and autonomous regions, with up to 200,000 deceived believers. Over recent years, its progeny include “ Chang-shou
Sect”,[16] “Administrative Deacon’s Stations in Mainland China”, “ The Installed King”, “Lord God Sect”, “Power Lord”
(which was evolved into “The Practical God”), “The Practical God” (also called “Oriental Lightening”),[17] etc.

Li Chang-shou twisted the doctrines of Christianity by claiming, “Christ is I, and I am Christ”. He changed the words of the Bible from “Call upon the name of the Lord,” “shouting”, asking the believers to cry out “ Lord Chang-shou.” He also claimed to “create confusion to the whole of the Christian religion.” The Sect and its core members attack the Party and the government openly, clamoring for “ rallying the church to resist the party and the government to the end”. A core member from Heilongjiang Province, Zhao Wei-shan proclaimed himself “Power Lord,” and called himself “the appearance of the second incarnated Jesus,” and he asked the believers to call upon “Power Lord” in place of “Chang-shou Lord”(which was later changed to “the Practical God” after being banned). The core member of Shouter Sect in Anhui Province, Wang Yongmin, illegally set up “ Administrative Deacon’s Station for China,” clamoring for “win the war of the nation, establish kingdom rule, and seizing the power from Satan.”

This organization instigated the believers to take over the churches and meeting places, besiege and beat the government officials, and demonstrate against Party and governmental offices. The ring leader of “Administrative Deacon’s Station for Mainland China”, Wang Yongmin, organized hundreds of believers to distribute LI Chang-shou’s “ Explosive News” and other reactionary propaganda material in 69 cities across 20 provinces, autonomous regions, and metropolises, and thereby seriously disturbing public order. Some of the core members committed crimes of rape and frauds and other criminal activities under the banners of religion, creating harm to the lives and property of the people and harm to social stability.[18]

In November 1995, the General Office of the Central Committee of CCP and that of the State Council forwarded the document : “Concerning the Investigation and the Banning of the ‘ Shouter Sect’ and Other Cultic Organizations and Their Situation and Suggestion for Action” issued by Ministry of Public Security’” (ting zi [1995] No.50). In this document it was clearly stated that the “ Chang-shou Sect,” the “Administrative Deacon’s Station for Mainland China,” the “Power Lord” and “the Practical God” are clearly identified as cults.

2. Association of Disciples[19] 

“Association of Disciples,” (also known as “The Narrow Gate in the Wilderness” in Hubei and other provinces), was founded in 1989 by Ji San-bao, a farmer from Yao County, Shanxi Province. The organization was divided into seven tiers ranking from general assembly, major assembly, branch assembly, minor assembly, minor branch assembly, the church, and church meeting points[20]. Early 1995, the organization had already spread to over 300 prefectures (counties) across 14 provinces, with deceived people totaling 350,000.

Ji Sanbao twisted Biblical [teachings] by fabricating “seven steps of spiritual journey.” He declared himself to be the “Christ established by God,” as the “God’s son.” He claimed that he could perform miracles that he fasted for 32 days, that he healed the blind and paralyzed, and even “resurrected the dead.”

The core members of this organization fabricated and spread superstitions and heresies, such as “healing the sick by prayers”, “casting out demons,” “eating only two taels (ounces) of grain per day,” that it is “useless to farm,” that “the students who have believed in the Lord don’t have to study to be learned,” and other superstitions and heterodox teachings.
As a result, a large multitude of deceived students dropped out of school, the massive people deserted farm lands to pray all
days, sold out their family property in preparation for “ascending to heaven”; some misled people even died due to delayed
medical treatment as they refused to see a doctor when they got sick. Under the cover of “evangelism,” some of the core
members committed crimes of adducting women, rape, frauds and other illegal criminal activities. Some of the core members
openly attacked the Party and the government, advocating “winning the heart of the people first, and then seize political
power.” The instigate riots and resist family planning policy. They surrounded the offices of the Party and governmental
headquarters, and they avenged party members and officials who curbed their illegal activities, and so seriously jeopardized
the security of society and political situation in affected areas.

In November 1995, in the “Notice on the Banning the Shouters Sect and Other Cult Organizations…” issued by Ministry of Public Security’” (ting zi [1995] No.50), General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and General Office of the State Council the “Association of Disciples” was clearly identified as cultic organization.

3. The All Sphere Church[21]

“The All Sphere Church” was founded by Xu Yongze[22], a native from Zhenping Prefecture (county) of Henan Province, in Pingdingshan City in 1984.[23] The highest authority of the “All Sphere Church” is the “All Sphere Council.”[24] This group later developed seven pastoral zones[25]. In 1990, one of the core members, Gong Shengliang established “South China Gospel Band” (also known as the “South China Church”) in Hubei. In 1991, this organization had already spread to over 88 prefectures across 15 provinces, deceiving[26] thousands of people.

The “ Basic Draft for Establishing Churches,” [27] compiled by Xu Yongze, advocated the goals of “Realizing the Christianization of Chinese culture, the evangelization of the whole nation, kingdomization of the church, and to co-reign with
the Lord.” He vilified the Party and government as “enemy,” “the devil,” the “Red-clothed Monster,” and instigated the
believers to fight against the devils in power.[28] Some of the core members attacked the “Three-Self” Patriotic Church.
They intimidate and lured the believers to withdraw from the “Three-Self Patriotic Movement and to join their cult;[29] some
of the core members spread such rumors as “The world is coming to the end, and the tribulations are coming.” “If you belief
in the Lord, you can heal the sick.” The demand of the believers to cry loudly at their meetings, which resulted in great
disturbance to their neighbors. So influenced by them that many [of their members] pay no attention to [farm] production,
and concentrate on being “lifted up to heaven.” Because some of their female evangelists are away from home for a long
duration of time doing evangelism, this fact has produced discord with their families who suffered serious hurt in their hearts
and in their health. 

In November 1995, in the “The Notice Regarding the Banning of Shouter Sect and Other Cult Organizations…” issued by Ministry of Public Security’” (ting zi [1995] No.50) and dispatched by the General Office of the Central Committee and by the General Office of the State Council clearly identified “The All Sphere Church” as cultic organization.

4. The Spirit-Spirit Sect[30]

“ Spirit Sect,” is also called “ Spiritual Religion” or “the Spirit Sect.” It was founded in 1983 by Hua Xuehe, a
farmer from Huaiyin Prefecture, Jiangsu Province. Despite of its loose organization, the sect has a clearly defined division of
work. By 1990, this organization had already spread to over 13 provinces, autonomous regions and metropolises, with
deceived people totaling 15,000.

Hua Xuehe claimed that he was “the second Jesus, Christ the Lord”, who is “the second incarnation of Jesus”
descending [upon him]. He said “Huaiyin is Jerusalem.”

The Sect advocates that “the end of the world is about to come, that the whole human race will be destroyed, and that only by joining the Spirit Sect can escape from the disaster,” and so causing the believing mass to give up farm labors waiting for “the end of the world”. They also spread the idea that when “a person is sick, it is because the devil has possess him/her; as soon as the devil is exorcized, the person will get well.” Thus they practiced exorcism and healing among the believers, whipping the tied patients and forbidding them to take any medicine and so harming the person. Hua Xuehe and others also deceive the people by saying, “the more you offer, the more peace you will receive and the more grace you will get from the family of God,” and thereby they exacted a large sum of money from the believing mass. After Hua Xuehe was arrested and put into the labor education camp, some of the core members gathered 700 believers to protest, and so seriously disturbing social order. Moreover, this organization also stirred up the believers to oppose the Party and the government and attacked the “Three-Self” Patriotic Church, declaring that “the nation must be ruled by the Gospel,” and that “the Ling-ling section should unify the world.”[31]

In November 1995, the Notice “Regarding the Banning Shouter Sect and Other Cult Organizations…Issued by Ministry of Public Security’” (ting zi [1995] No.50), dispatched by the General Office of the Central Committee of the CCP and by the General Office of the State Council clearly identified “the Spirit Sect” as cult.

5. New Testament Church

“New Testament Church,” also called “ Christian Charismatic Evangelistic Band”, was founded in 1960 by a Hong Kong movie actress, Mei Qi (Jiang Duanyi) and then handed down to her daughter Ruth Chang, who spread her teachings and established an organization in Taiwan. In 1964, another leader of the organization Hung San-chi [Hong Sanqi][32] established a new headquarter and “holy mountain”[33] in Kaohsiung prefecture of Taipei.[34] In 1988, one of leaders of this organization in charge of the “Shi-pai Church” [in northern Taipei] Tso Shun-kun [Zhuo Kunshen], set up a new “The Blood and Water of Jesus Christ and Holy Spirit Full Gospel Evangelistic Band ” (also known as “The Church Reestablished by Holy Spirit ”). Currently, the organization has already spread to over 20 provinces, autonomous regions and special metropolises.

Mei Qi, Hong Sanqi and Zuo Kun all called themselves “prophets,” who “represent the supreme God to exercise royal rule.” They claimed they that “they are the rulers of God on the earth.” They also claim to overthrow the kingdom of man and establish the kingdom of God.” They attack our political authority viciously calling it as a “ tyrannical power, ” and our laws as “evil laws”, clamoring, “down with atheists” to “save the souls of people who are persecuted under Communism and to establish the kingdom of God.” Under their planning and support, the core members in China are recruiting members, building up their organization, and conducting illegal meetings, and so bringing much harm to the social stability in some area.

In November 1995, in the notice “Regarding the Banning of the Shouters Sect and Other Cult Organizations…issued by Ministry of Public Security’” (ting zi [1995] No.50) dispatched by the General Office of the China Central Committee of CCP and by the General Office of the State Council clearly identified “New Testament Church” (including its offshoot “The Blood and Water of Jesus Christ Holy Spirit Full Gospel Evangelistic Band” as cultic organizations. 

6. Guanyin Famen [The Way of the Goddess of Mercy]

“The Way of Goddess of Mercy” sect was founded in Taiwan in 1988 by Shi Ching-hai [Shi Qinghai], a Chinese of British nationality. Its activities have reached far across the nation in the majority of the provinces, autonomous regions and special administrative metropolises. In May of 1998, one of the core members of ”The Way of the Goddess of Mercy,” Xu Chengjiang, set up another “Yuandunfamen.” This offshoot sect has extended itself to nine provinces/cities and over 20 prefectures, and those who are deceived by them number 5,000. Its members are classified with six ranks, namely, “Yuandun,” senior disciples, disciples who have been to the mountain, fellow practitioner authorized to preach their way, fellow practitioner and pupils.

Shi Qinghai claim herself to be “The Supreme Teacher Qing-hai”, a status that parallels to Sakyamuni, Jesus Christ, Allah. She deified herself by claiming that “If I were not Buddha, then no one can become would become a Buddha.” She spread words attacking and overthrowing the Chinese Communist Party, stating “There is no way for human beings to accept the ideas of communism; otherwise, we would be returning to the pre-civilization era.” Xu Chengjiang called himself  “Yuadun holy patriarch,” “a contemporary living Buddha.” She wantonly advocating “now the earth is under the rule of the king of the devil; dooms day is coming. Only by joining the ‘Yuandunfamen” can one avoid the disaster.

Since 1989, the members of the Sect have come into China frequently under the cover of traveling, visiting, investing and opening up factories for the purpose of recruiting and founding secret meeting places. More recently they have made plans for believers in China to go abroad to attend “famen” meetings or to receive training in order to return home for the expansion of their the cult organization. Xu Chengjiang incited believers to offer all their property to support “Yuandun”, defrauding them of their money by hundreds of millions yuan. The believers were also instigated to sell their houses, moving to Changbai Mountain or Daxinan Mountains with their families to evade the disasters. The Sect’s activities have jeopardized the security of massive people’s life and property, and seriously disturbed society public order. 

In November 1995, in the notice “Regarding the banning Shouter Sect and Other Cult Organizations and Work Suggestion Issued by the Ministry of Public Security’” (ting zi [1995] No.50), dispatched by the General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council clearly identified “Guanyinfamen” as a cultic organization. Thereupon, on December 22, 1999, “Yuandunfamen” is identified as s cult in the document issued by the first bureau of the Ministry of Public Security to all the bureau and offices of the Public Security in each province, autonomous regions and the metropolises under the direct control of the central government as well as to the Ministry of Interior Security. The document is entitled: “Notice Concerning the Prohibition and Banning of the Cultic Organization “Yuandun famen.”

7. Lord God Sect 

This Sect was founded in 1993 by one of the core members of “Elected King”, Liu Jia-guo, which has been active in over 22 provinces, autonomous regions and cities, deceiving thousands of people. Within the organization there are seven levels ranking from “ God the Lord”, “Lord in the most high”, “Four living creatures”, “Seven angels”, “Provincial power”, “County power”, and “co-workers”.

Liu Jiaguo claimed himself “God the Lord ”, manufacturing and distributing superstitions and heresies, such as “dooms day is coming; only believing in God the Lord can save you. Rally around God the Lord to establish God’s kingdom.” Liu raped 19 women under the pretense of “giving God’s spirit”. He defrauded the believers of their money by the amount of over 400,000 yuan in the name of offering money and grain. Their illegal activities have jeopardized the security of massive people’s life and property, and seriously disturbed public order and stability of political situations in the affected areas. 

On April 11, 1998, in the “Announcement: On Preserving the Stability Of Society and Political Situation (zhong ban fa zi [1998] No.8), General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and General Office of the State Council
identified “the Lord God” Sect as cult.

II. Seven Cults identified by the Ministry of Public Security

1. The Established King

This sect was founded in 1988 by one of the core members of “the Shouters Sect”, Wu Yang-ming, which has set up over 500 activity centers in 29 provinces, autonomous regions and cities, recruiting thousands of people. Within the organization there are five levels, ranking from “Father king” (Wu Yang-ming), “ Power”, “Representatives”, “The subordinates”, disciples. They also laid down strict rules and regulations.  Wu Yang-ming twisted “Christ of God” in “Luke” of the Bible, claiming himself “Elected King”. In order to instigate and coerce people into joining the organization, he claimed, “dooms day is coming. Only believing in Elected King can save you; otherwise you will be punished and be killed, ”

Wu and his followers vilified the Party and the government, clamoring, “overthrows the Satan’s power to build up God’s kingdom of new heaven and new earth.” before year 2000. By interpreting “being called” in the Bible as having sex with women believers in order to “be saved”, he had raped dozens of adult women and children by means of cajolery and coercion, among whom 19 persons had had their testimony examined. He amassed huge amount of money by hundreds of thousands through requesting the believers to pay “offerings”. Their illegal activities have jeopardized the security of massive people’s life and property, and seriously disturbed public order and stability of political situations in the affected rural areas.

On August 28th, 1995, in the “Approval For the Identifying the Organization “the Established King” According to Law ” (gong zheng [1995] No. 470) issued by the Ministry of Public Security to the Public Security Department of Anhui Province, “the Established King” was identified as cult organization.

2. Unification Church

“Unification Church” also called as “Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity”, was founded in Pusan by Korean American Sun Myung Moon(meaning someone who has clarified the Truth, or Shining Sun and Moon –editor’s note) in 1954.

Sun Myung Moon drafted “the Divine Principle”, in which he denied Bible, claiming himself “returning Messiah”, the “successor” chosen by Jesus Christ to fulfill Jesus unfinished mission, to build up “unified families”, “unify world Christianity”, and finally “ unify all political systems,” “ establishing a heaven on the earth.”

The organization prescribes “baptizing” as having sex among believers between a man and a woman. The marriage must be arranged by Syung Moon, who was the person to preside over trans-national group weddings. Aiming at “anti-Communism and victory over the Communism”, they claim, “the victory of Communism means the failure of democracy and the world of freedom.” This organization had organized anti-Communism large-scale parades in Korea and the United States.

Over recent years, this organization has frequently sent their members infiltrating in China under the cover of teaching, cultural exchange, financial assistance with investment, meanwhile trying hard to win over Chinese overseas students and officials as their recruits for the purpose of expanding “Unification Church” after they return home.

On May 6th, 1997, in the “Approval For the Identifying “Unification Church” as Cult (gong zheng [1997] No.290) issued by the Ministry of Public Security to the Public Security authorities in Jilin Province and other provinces and autonomous regions, cities directly under the central government, “Unification Church” was identified as cult organization.

3. Three Kinds of Servants Sect

This Sect was founded by Xu Wen-ku (or, Xu Shuang-fu), a native from Zhenping County, Henan Province. With members being ranked as “Chief servant” (or “elder uncle”), “Junior servant” (or “younger uncle”), maid, watch-out, co-workers, pillar, etc, the sect’s interior system is strictly organized, which has been active over 18 provinces, autonomous regions and cities directly under the central government.

Xu deified himself by borrowing the titles from the Bible, calling himself “Chief servant”. Xu and core members manufactured and distributed superstitions and heresies, such as “ Seven disasters will happen to the world by 2000; dooms day will come. Jesus lifts only believers to heaven, while unbelievers will go down to hell.” and “ only Three Kinds of Servants is Truth and Way.” They also advocated “coming to power with the Lord.”

Over recent years, Xu and his core members have defrauded deceived believers out of their money by huge amounts, and committed other crimes disturbing public order.

On March 12, 1999, in the “Announcement: On Relevant Issues Regarding Investigating and Dealing with Three Kinds of Servants” (gong an [1999] No.165) issued by the Ministry of Public Security to the Public Security authorities in provinces and autonomous regions, cities directly under the central government, “Three Kinds of Servants” is identified as cult.

4.The Immortal Real Buddha Sect 

This Sect was founded by a Chinese American Lu Sheng-yan in 1979, with the headquarter set in Leicang Buddhist Temple (also called “Hall of The Immortal Real Residence”), Seattle, U.S. In 1988 this Sect has begun its infiltration in China, which has been active over 13 provinces and cities. 

Lu Sheng-yan advertised himself as “ Buddha incarnate”, “ Master Buddha”, claiming, “I really have achieved success through having practiced the Buddhist doctrines on a solid basis, starting step by step from practicing basic doctrines. I even have studied all other religions, ranging from Christianity, Taoism, Xian Gate of Buddhism, Mi Sect of Buddhism, and other less influential religions.”

Lu Sheng-yan is extremely hostile to socialist system. He delivered many speeches in public in 1989, attacking Chinese Communist Party and the government. He also organized a so-called “Buddhist Meeting for the Release Souls From Purgatory For Those Fellow Chinese who died on the June 4th (1989)”, which was broadcasted on air to the whole world. The organization set up branch offices in Shanghai, Guangzhou and Kunming, and assigned supervisors to smuggle into China a large quantities of books and propaganda material, recruit members and expand organizations.

On December 15th, in the “Announcement Regarding Cult Organizations and Their Activity (gong zheng [1995] No.691) ” issued by the Ministry of Public Security to Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee and Department of the CPC Central Committee, Supreme Court and Supreme Procuratorate, the Immortal Real Buddha Sect is identified as cult.

5. The Children of God

This Sect, also called as “The Family of Love” was founded by an American David Moses Berg in the United States in 1968, which moved the headquarter to Zurich, Switzerland. The basic unit is “family”, and the highest authority is “Imperial family”, in which David acts as “Emperor””. This organization has begun its infiltration into China since 1980, having built up over 110 families with 190 recruits.

David claimed that he has received the revelation from God to deify himself. He drafted “Mo(ses) Letters “ as the canon, preaching the heresy “dooms day”. He requested that the believers should cast off everything and offer their bodies and property in absolute obedience to “Imperial Family”. David and his followers reviled all social systems and ideology, vilifying that “ Communism will lead to a big nuclear war.” He claimed God’s love is sexual love, instigating believers “fishing by inflicting”, i.e. to recruit members and solicit donations through prostituting. This organization practices communal living and promiscuous sex, encourages sex among children. The majority of the believers in China subject to the influence have been accused of gross indecency, or indulged in sexual immorality, while some others become sex offenders, seriously endangering public order.

On December 15th, in the “Announcement Regarding Cult Organizations and Their Activity (gong zheng [1995] No.691) ” issued by the Ministry of Public Security to Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, Department of the CPC Central Committee, Supreme Court and Supreme Procuratorate, “Children of Father in Heaven” is identified as cult.

6. Dami Mission

This Sect was founded by a Korean Lee Jang-lim in 1988, with “The World General Headquarter of Dami Mission” as the highest authority. This organization entered China early 1992, and has spread in over 10 provinces, autonomous regions and cities directly under the central government.

Aim at advocating “dooms day” theory, this organization claims, the beginning day of “dooms day” is 23:00pm October 28th, 1992. Those joining the organization prior to that day will be lifted to heaven with Jesus, while those unbelievers will suffer in subsequent 7-year disasters and will be judged by Jesus in 1999.

Since 1992, this organization has frequently sent its members into China, recruiting members, founding branch organizations, illegally printing, distributing a large quantities of propaganda material advocating “dooms day”. They also ordered core members to instigate, organize those deceived believers to engage in “ascending to heaven” in groups. In Jilin Province they set up 60 gathering places, recruited 400 core members, and deceived 4,000 persons. On their instigation 1200 of those deceived sold out their family property, moved out of hometown, quit their job and study in order to “ascend to heaven ”, even approaching at point of “group suicide ”. The organization activity have jeopardized the security of massive people’s life and property, and seriously disturbed public order and stability of political situations in the affected rural areas.

On December 15th, in the “Announcement Regarding Cult Organizations and Their Activity (gong zheng [1995] No.691) ” issued by the Ministry of Public Security to Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, Department of the CPC Central Committee, Supreme Court and Supreme Procuratorate, “Dami Mission” is identified as cult. 

7. “World Elijah Evangelical Mission” Sect

This Sect (its current name “ Elijah Ten Commandments Stone Country Korean Farmers Salvation Association”) was founded by a Korean Park Myung-ho in 1980. The hierarchy in the Sect has five levels, ranking from God, Angel, Managing servant, Chief section, and leader of gathering places. Upon its arrival in China since 1993, it has spread to Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Beijing, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Anhui, Shandong, Henan etc. 11 provinces, autonomous regions and cities directly under the central government.

Park Myung-ho claimed himself the last prophet “Elijah”, requesting his believers to worship him as “the Immortal Stone”. He called the organization as “Stone country”, for which he drafted up constitution, national flag and anthem. He claimed, “ The dooms day will come in 2000; Park Myung-ho will stand up on the earth as God on September 30, 1997,” and clamored to “dash and ruin every nation.” 

The organization has invested huge amounts of money for the infiltration in China. They set up 20 gathering places, liaison offices, and rent lands for establishing 8 communal villages of “Stone Country”, where over 600 deceived believers moved and lived together after sold out their property. In communal villages of “Stone Country”, the residents are requested to cut off contacts with outside world to focus on study of the cult’s tenet, while reading newspaper, watching TV and listening to radio were forbidden. The believers must try all means to absolutely obey Park Myung-ho in the mission to establish Stone Country system and destroy Chinese Communist Party system. On their instigation, hundreds of Korean Chinese and Han people living in three provinces of Northeast area joined the organization and moved their families up to live in “Stone Country” after having sold out their property. The organization’s activity has seriously disturb the deceived people’ normal production and life order.

On March 19th, 1996, in the special report to the leaders of the Party and the government “On Investigation and Punishment of The Infiltration Activity of ‘ World Elijah Evangelical Mission’ Sect by Public Security Authorities in Jilin Province ”, “ World Elijah Evangelical Mission” Sect is identified as cult.

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Document II
Confidential
The Bulletin of the Department of Anhui Public Security[35]
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The office of the Department of Public Security of Anhui Province March 6th, 2001

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Identify our task, strengthen our determination and create a new prospect in domestic security and defense in the new century

– A speech given by Sun Jianxin, the vice director of the department at the meeting of the provincial domestic security and defense[36]

(February 21st, 2001)

Comrades:

This meeting is conducted by the decision of the Party Committee of the department. The subject is to carry out the objectives from the provincial meeting on public security and from the national meeting for the directors of departments (and of bureaus and of general corps – ju, zong dui) on domestic security and defense under the guidance of the important thoughts of “three representatives” proposed by General Secretary Jiang [Zemin]. We also need to reflect and summarize our work in the year 2000 on domestic security and defense in our province, analyze the present and upcoming situation we will face in regard to maintaining social and political stability, study and discuss “the tenth five-year” development plan (“shi wu” fa zhan gui hua) for domestic security and defense. What is more important is that we need to dispose the major tasks for maintaining social and political stability in the year 2001 as well as some important measures about the fundamental development of domestic security and defense. Now I’m going to talk about four issues according to the discussion of the Party Committee of the department.

I. Obvious achievements in the year 2000 on the work of domestic security and defense in our province and effectively maintaining the social and political stability of the province

In the past year, under the leadership of the Party Committee and the government, the public security bodies in the province have thoroughly carried out the objectives of the national meetings on domestic and public security and defense work at the basic levels. Based on the unified dispositions of the Ministry of Public Security and the Party Committee of the province, we have prioritized the work on maintaining stability and, with effective forceful measures, we have successfully promoted the fundamental construction at the basic level for public security and defense, which has successfully maintained social and political stability in our province. Thus we have made a constructive contribution in protecting the policy of reforming and door opening to be smoothly carried out and promoting healthy economic development.

(1) Having launched extensive battles against “Falungong” and carried out effectively the investigation and punishment of harmful qi gong organizations

Following the dispositions of the provincial department of public security, the public security authorities in the province have reinforced information collection, set up specific cases on reconnoitering the “Falungong” organization, and controlled the key members and their activities in the society. The public security bodies have also promptly investigated and punished some die-hard “Falungong” members to prevent them from contacting each other and gathering together, and stopped a large number of “Falungong” members who had planned to go to Hefei and Beijing. They have complied with the work objectives of “punishing the active, investigating old cases, blocking the resources, fortifying the foundations and focusing on prevention,” and also started specific actions to detect and confiscate the propaganda materials of “Falungong.”  They confiscated over 40,000 copies of 200 different types of “Falungong” propaganda materials and arrested over 380 suspects. These operations have effectively prohibited the scattering and distribution of the “Falungong” materials. They have done such a good job that their work has been recognized and praised by the provincial Party Committee, provincial government and the Ministry of Public Security. Wang Zhaoyao, the vice secretary of the provincial Party Committee instructed: “The public security bodies have obtained obvious results in their specific case work on effectively banning and confiscating “Falungong” propaganda materials. This has forcefully restrained “fan tan” (rebound) and maintained social stability.” The public security bodies have reinforced the specific investigation on “Falungong” and increased the scope of reconnaissance and investigation on the die-hard “Falungong” members who had clandestinely made contact with other members, planned and organized illegal activities to go to Beijing to stir trouble. They have also uncovered a series of important cases concerning some “Falungong” members who are very influential, such as Gao Qingyin, the chief director of “Falungong” station in Hefei, who had changed his mind and put his “Declaration” on a web site. Ji Guangxiu and several others had distributed leaflets, Zhang Jie, had illegally contacted other members and distributed “Falungong” propaganda materials in the province, Wang Chengsheng, Ke Tianguang and some others from Chizhou had gone to Tiananmen Square to openly distribute leaflets, and so on. They have dealt with and punished through the law a few key and die-hard members and have taken the initiative to educate and convert the “Falungong” members in cooperation with some related offices. In the past year, thirty people [“Falungong members] have had sentences passed against them, over 255 have been educated through forced labor (lao jiao), 949 were arrested for criminal offences (xing ju) and 1016 were arrested for security concerns (zhi ju).

According to the objects of Document No.5 of the Party Central Committee and the dispositions of both the provincial Party Committee and the Ministry of Public Security, the public security authorities of the entire province have conducted serious investigations on the harmful qigong organizations and have dealt with them. They have found out more information about some organizations, such as “Zhong gong,” “Huazang gong,” “San san jiu cheng yuan gong,” “Reaching-space-spirit gong” (yu zhou tong ling gong), which are suspected of breaking the law and committing crimes.  They also found out which channels these organizations have utilized to infiltrate into our province, their key members, their organizational systems, the number of their practitioners and the areas these members reside and their activities. They have fully obtained the criminal evidences of those organizations in our province, including their sending out inciting leaflets, evading tax payment, operating illegal business, unlawfully collecting money, and swindling money and property with feudalism and superstition. They have dealt with and punished through the law those organizations that have affected our province. Their organizational systems in our province have been destroyed, and the top key member of “Xiang Gong,” Cheng Zhenping, who was under an arrest warrant from the Ministry of Public Security, and the top key members of “Zhong gong,” Sun Haixin and Hu Wanping, were taken into custody. (The Ministry of Public Security made a specific comment on the arrest of Cheng Zhenping and proposed to give merit to the team handling this case – zhuan an zuo). The public security bodies have also obtained many kinds of illegal publications, video- and audio- tapes weighing over 100 tons. They have confiscated over 470,000 yuan which had been unlawfully collected and returned it to those who lost their money. The whole process of investigation and dealing with [these qi gong organizations] has been carried out steadily, which was fully recognized by the Ministry of Public Security. According to the written instruction by Tian Qiyu, the vice minister of the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Public 

Security advocated our methods and experiences throughout the nation.

(2) Tightening the control of the “liang fei” (means two kinds of illegal activities indicated below –editor’s note) elements and strictly preventing and striking by law any penetrating and sabotage activity brought about by the antagonistic powers from both inside and outside of the province

In 2000, the situation concerning the hostile forces in our province was very complicated. Incited by the propaganda of the hostile organizations of both inland and abroad, some illegal activities of “organizing (means political -editor’s note) parties” within the province became more vigorous. Some of the former ringleaders, who had been punished by deprivation of their political rights or educated through forced labor and were set free upon the termination of their punishment, conspired more actively with the hostile organizations or elements in and out of the province or abroad. In the light of the situation mentioned above, as well as regarding some important political events, such as the two national meetings (“liang hui”), the general election in Taiwan, the international convention on human rights, and sensitive periods like “June 4th,” as well as holidays like National Day (October 1st), all levels of public security authorities in the entire province focused on reconnaissance and control of specific cases and set up a tight supervisory network. They implemented systems in management and the taking of responsibility at different levels, ensured that the key members were under control, and dealt in a timely fashion with some key members attempting to illegally contact the members in other areas and to have illegal gatherings. They discovered and prohibited in advance the schemes of some key members who had tried to flee the country, to instigate problems, and to gain (here it seems there is a typing mistake. it should be ZHIZAO, meaning to create or gain instead of ZHIZHI, meaning to stop- editor’s note) political influence. In dealing with the apparent activities of “organizing parties” by some antagonistic elements both in and out of the province, the public security bodies conducted multi-level and multi-direction control, and based on comprehensive evidence of activities [of these organizations], decisively attacked them through the law, and thus limited their activities to contact with members outside of the province and publishing their declarations overseas, but they were unable to become more influential or form into an organization or grow into power. Neither did they bring about immense harm to the social and political stability in our province. 

The public security bodies in every area have issued timely warnings, obtained evidence and started reconnaissance and investigation into tracking down all kinds of cases, which were instigating problems in the society. That has effectively maintained social and political stability.

(3) Forcefully investigating and banning cults and reinforcing reconnaissance and defense in regard to religions 

In the light of the evidence that a few cult organizations had resumed their activities, the public security bodies in the entire province promptly gathered forces to attack and banish the cult organizations through the law in a method of discovering a case [of a cult], banishing it and purifying the area it has affected. After investigation and reconnaissance of the cult organizations, i.e. “Mainland China Administrative Executive Station” (zhong hua da lu xing zheng zhi shi zhan), “Evangelical Gospel Mission Armored with Blood and Holy Spirit” (xue shui sheng ling quan bei fu yin bu dao tuan), and “All Powerful God” (quan neng shen), the public security bodies thwarted the attempt of “Mainland China Administrative Executive Station” to distribute leaflets all over the country, successfully arrested Wan Renhong, the top key member of the cult “Evangelical Gospel Mission Armored with Blood and Holy Spirit,” who was under an arrest warrant issued by the Ministry of Public Security. This has effectively restrained the cults from developing and widely spreading in our province. As China and the Vatican discussed establishing diplomatic relations, the public security bodies in the entire province, together with the United Front (tong zhan) and religion department, began to search, educate, convert, reconnoiter and control some key members of the underground Catholics. They discovered the whereabouts of some important individuals and found out the movement of the key members of the underground Catholics. With regard to the “canonization” on October 1 by the Vatican authority in Rome, the public security bodies in each area took an initial step and began to tighten the security and control in advance, successfully preventing illegal activities that might have been triggered by the event and protecting social stability during this sensitive period. They also investigated and dealt with all kinds of illegal activities that had been conducted under the name of religions, confiscated a large volume of illegal religious propaganda materials, and punished those who had been involved in these activities. In this way, they prevented the wide spreading of illegal propaganda materials. We should vigorously resist any religious infiltration from abroad and conduct reconnaissance and investigation on those who came to China to perpetrate illegal religious activities. We need to obtain evidence [of their illegal activities] quickly and punish them through the law.

(4) Focusing on intelligence and promoting domestic security and defense work at the basic level

The public security bodies in our province have focused on intelligence for maintaining stability. Considering different priorities at various times, they decided to emphasize gathering information. Focusing on some obvious issues endangering the [social and political] stability, some sensitive parts (min gan bu wei) and important individuals, they made full use of secret agents as their major intelligence channels and obtained some informative and forewarning information at high levels. This kind of information provided a crucial basis for the leaders to make precise decisions to properly handle the situation and prevent damage. For example, the Bengbu public security bureau and first bureau of the provincial department obtained in advance some information that a suspect who was under investigation had plotted to go abroad illegally. After obtaining all the information, they employed all kinds of strategies and made the best use of reconnaissance mediums and successfully stopped him from leaving the country illegally and thus defeated his conspiracy to join an antagonistic organization abroad to continue his activities that would be harmful to the safety of our country. This success was fully recognized and praised by the provincial Party Committee, the provincial government and the Ministry of Public Security.  Mr. Tian, Qiyu, deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Security instructed: “The control work on the key members conducted by the Anhui Public Security Department is worthy of being noted and praised for others to follow in future work.” In order to truly improve the quality and degree of intelligence, all levels of public security authorities have steadily promoted the building of secret forces in regard to the current situation. They made both medium- and long-range plans along with yearly proposals to build secret forces for domestic security and defense. They reinforced their inspection, guidance and supervision, and implemented methods to check on the fulfillment of each project, which strongly promoted the implementation of building intelligence. The provincial department revised “Regulations for the Public Security Authorities of Intelligence of Domestic Security in Anhui Province” and “Evaluation Methods on Intelligence” in order to make intelligence work more standardized and systematic. These revised regulations and methods clarified the methods in collecting and handling information as well as evaluation and reward, which provided rules and regulations to follow in intelligence work.  

In order to carry out the objectives of “the Decision on reinforcing the construction of the three basic stations” by the Party Committee of the department, as well as to promote and extend the essential work of the police stations in domestic security and defense, the Party Committee of the department held a seminar on domestic security and defense for the police stations in the province. The attendants of the seminar worked together and constructed wonderful strategies for the police stations in domestic security and defense, which have laid a solid foundation for completely promoting the development of essential work for the police stations in domestic security and defense. The provincial department has formulated “Basic work for Anhui police stations on domestic security and defense and the evaluation methods” in order to promote the work of domestic security and defense carried out at the basic level, in a police station or by a policeman in charge of an allocated area. Every area has focused on making sure that every rule and regulation is followed and achieves the desired results. At the moment, an effective working system has been formed in the entire province, which is “the head of local police station (pai chu suo) is in full charge, the head of sub-local police station (fen kuan suo) carries out specific tasks, the police take charge of their allocated areas, and the departments responsible for domestic security and defense provides supervision.” The application of the new working systems has guaranteed that the basic work of domestic security and defense will carried out by the police stations, and thus the important role and function of the police stations in maintaining social and political stability has been fully demonstrated.

(5) Paying close attention to the social tendency on economic and cultural realms and properly handling some troublesome symptoms and mass events

Under the leadership of the provincial Party Committee and the government, all the public security bodies, while actively working together with the related departments, have started serious investigations into any unstable factors (bu an ding yin su) which may affect social and political stability. By means of reinforcing reconnaissance through secret agents, controlling local areas, and in conducting research at the basic levels, they have in advance discovered and obtained information of all kinds of unstable factors in business enterprises, in work units and in the fields of social science and culture. They also found evidence about some antagonistic elements who had attempted to get involved. They have fulfilled their job function in providing a timely warning by promptly reporting all they had found to the provincial Party Committee, the government and the public security bodies at higher levels. At the same time, they took an active part in mitigating the effects of some events. Whenever a mass event occurred, they reacted fast and decisively but properly handled the event with the cooperation of the other related departments, and thus reduced the effects and damage those events brought to society. At the end of June, several hundred students from the School of Economics at China Science and Technology University were upset upon graduation with their diplomas and went to the main campus to protest and had a sit-in demonstration. They had clashes with other students residing there who were agitated with their actions. This event attracted the keen attention of the provincial Party committee, the provincial government and the Ministry of Public Security. The public security authorities of the province and of the city, the department of domestic security and defense, and department of economic and cultural defense, together with the university, dealt with the event promptly. Due to the proper measures being applied, this stirring event was basically limited to the campus and therefore did not bring more damage to the society.

While recognizing these achievements, we should also clearly understand that there are still many aspects in domestic security and defense that need improving and reinforcing immediately because they are not up to the requirements for maintaining social and political stability in this new era. First, the aspect of reconnaissance and intelligence is still very weak, and the building up the secret forces and of the front lines have not been done on a deeper and wider basis as needed. The forewarning system has not been established yet, and there is an urgent need for improving the capability of discovering and controlling incidents and the potentiality of investigating a particular event and handling tough cases.  Secondly, the fundamental work of domestic security and defense at the basic level is rather weak, and development in different areas is not in balance. Police stations have not fully developed their basic work in domestic security and defense, and the bodies of domestic security and defense at the county level do not possess a real fighting ability, which has inhibited the work of domestic security and defense from further development. Thirdly, the best modern technology has not been applied in domestic security and defense. The slow development in science and technology has had a negative effect on the improvement of efficiency and has prevented the entire entity from functioning at its full potential. Fourthly, the personnel qualifications in domestic security and defense and their fighting ability do not meet the new task requirements in the new era. The shortage of policemen, funds, equipment, etc. has hindered the effective execution of domestic security and defense bodies.

II. The current and future situation we face in maintaining social and political stability

(1) The hostile forces both inside and outside of the province as well as that of the country joined together and vigorously perpetuated infiltration and sabotage to our country in an attempt to start a new attack on us

The hostile Western powers headed by the USA have hastened to carry on their strategies of “westernizing” (xi hua), “segregating” (fen hua), and “impairing” (ruo hua) our country. They have gathered anti-China and ant-Communist forces and have striven to build up a power domain all around our country in an attempt to form an “Asian and Pacific group security system” (ya tai ji ti an quan ti xi) led by the USA so as to tie us up. The hostile organizations both in our country and abroad have shifted their focus to the inside of our country and have hastened their infiltration through various methods, such as via foundations or academic delegations, and all kinds of media. The hostile elements in our province have been busy plotting various schemes and perpetuating damaging activities. The first type of individuals are those “elements in the democratic movement” (min yun fen zi) who were punished but still hold animosity [towards our government]. They have been re-attempting to set up the banner of the “Democratic Party of China” and to gather forces to fight us. The second type are the hostile elements in our province who frequently conspired with each other, keeping watch on the situation and discussing strategies for the “democratic movement.” The third group are those who have perpetrated illegal activities to build up influence and have assailed our Party and the government during sensitive periods and on holidays or when some important political events were taking place. The fourth type are those who are “supporting political activities with business” (yi shang yang zheng). They have tried all means to increase their strength and attempted to gradually become more powerful (zuo da cheng huan). The hostile elements in our province may increase their illegal activities as we are joining the WTO, and further opening up and the antagonistic powers abroad would provide more support and give more money to the key members of the “democratic movement.” All kinds of reactionary political powers, due to their reactionary nature, will tend to join together and may bring more harm to the social and political stability. 

(2) The illegal activities of “Falungong” and other cult organizations have gravely damaged social stability

With the intervention and support from the USA and Taiwan, the cult organization “Falungong” has speeded up its collusion with the antagonistic powers and openly defies our government. It has become a political tool used by the antagonistic powers. The “Falungong” members in our province are constantly making trouble and have perpetuated all kinds of illegal activities as they are incited by Li Hongzhi, influenced by the propaganda of the “Falungong” center organization abroad, and encouraged by communicating with the die-hard members of “Falungong” both inside and outside of the country. Some of them have kept going to Beijing to stir up trouble; some have shifted their ways and fabricated public opinions to attack the Party and the government, claiming that the cult organization “Falungong” was unjustly persecuted; others gathered together openly or secretly to begin their [“Falungong”] practice. Some of the station leaders have also created disturbances by resuming their activities. In the coming period, a few die-hard “Falungong” members and station leaders will keep following Li Hongzhi’s instruction and continue to secretly direct or instigate the people who practice “Falungong” to conduct all kind of illegal activities, including committing suicide, burning themselves, threatening and killing policemen and other violent and damaging activities to create influence and put pressure on the government. Therefore, the struggle against “Falungong” is long and complicated because the situation is still critical and the tasks are arduous. 

Some of the cult organizations came back from the ashes (si hui fu ran) and resumed their activities. Though having been banned by the public security bodies in the past few years, some cults, like “Mainland China Administrative Executive Station” (zhong hua da lu xing zheng zhi shi zhan), the “Disciples” (men tu hui), “All Powerful God” (quan neng shen), “Total Scope Church” (quan fan wei jiao hui), and “the Shouters” (hu han pai) etc., have not stopped their illegal activities. Their key members have either altered their techniques or divided into small groups but are still busy clandestinely making connections. They actively conducted large-scale so-called “training sessions” and frequently held “communication” meetings (jiao tong hui) attempting to regroup the old members and waiting for the right time to carry out their plots. Some cult organizations attempt to infiltrate our party and government organizations to seek protection and to start businesses for the purpose of “supporting churches with business” (yi shang yang jiao). Those tendencies mentioned above really deserve our close attention.

Some harmful qigong organizations continue to switch their methods, seeking areas where it will survive and develop. Some key members of “Zhong gong” in our province have contacted each other secretly and attempted to start their activities again. Once Zhang Hongbao is released from prison, the key members and other members of “Zhong gong” will upgrade their activity levels with his instruction.

(3) Apparent infiltration of religious organizations from abroad and illegal activities under the name of religion

Religious organizations abroad, such as Catholic, Protestant and Muslim organizations, and their members have frequently come to our province under the name of visiting families and friends or sightseeing, to perpetuate infiltration. First, they organized secret meetings to conduct illegal religious activities. Secondly, they contacted our people in the religious service in secret to deliver the decrees of the churches abroad and to collect extensive information about our churches. Thirdly, they used money as lures to win favor, intervened with our internal religious affairs and conducted infiltrating activities. All these activities have posed a potential threat to the stability of our province.

After its effort of canonization was rejected by our government, the Vatican is still waiting for any opportunity to intervene with the internal affairs of the Catholic churches in our country. They will draw the patriotic religious believers up to them and incite them to rebel. They will also provide support to the underground Catholics to sabotage the stability in the Catholic churches [registered with the government]. Under their influence, the key members of the underground Catholic churches may speed up their connection and resume their activities. Some illegal activities under the cover of religion have occurred repeatedly, such as holding training classes and printing and distributing large volumes of illegal religious propaganda materials, which requires our high attention.

(4) The influence and impact on the social stability from mass events prompted by some internal contradictions among the people (ren min nei bu mao dun) is becoming more serious, and high attention should be paid to the intervention of the antagonistic elements who were taking advantage of mass event. Since last year, there have been an increasing number of all kinds of mass events, which are large scale, more intense and more damaging to the society. Some areas witnessed frequent blocking of roads or railways, illegal demonstrations and even surrounding and attacking the party and government offices. There are some very serious cases when some crowds even battered people, smashed and robbed stores and surrounded and beat the party and government cadres and the policemen on duty. Some mass events appeared to be organized and had chain effects, which made it difficult to handle the incidents. In the near future, with the further development of reforming and door-opening, strategic adjustment to the economic structures, speeding up construction in cities and towns and joining the WTO may all bring more impact, which inevitably incites new controversies and problems. The number of all kinds of mass events may keep growing. What needs more attention is that the antagonistic elements both inside and outside the province try to take advantage of these types of events to stir up trouble, plot and organize “workers movements,” “peasants movements” and “students movements” to fabricate social influence and turmoil.


III. Enforcing [security] functions and giving all efforts in carrying out every job in maintaining social and political stability

The year 2001 is the beginning of a new century and the first year to fulfill the “fifteen-year” plans and to realize the third step of the strategic purpose in the construction of socialist modernization. With the acceleration of the process of our joining the WTO and the complete embarkment on the strategies to develop the West, the scope of maintaining the social and political stability and the domestic security and defense will increase, the situation will be more complicated and the tasks will be more arduous. Therefore, all the public security authorities throughout the province should be guided with the important thoughts of “Three Representations”(refers “the CCP represents the most advanced productive force, the most advanced culture and the most fundamental interest of the Chinese people” –editor’s note) by General Secretary Jiang Ze-min and the objectives of the 15th session of the fifth Party plenary meeting. Further carry out and implement “the decision of enforcing the work of domestic security and defense” issued by the Party Committee of the Ministry of Public Security and “the Suggestions for implementing the decision of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Pubic Security on enforcing the work of domestic security and defense” issued by the Party Committee of the provincial department of public security. Follow the requirements and dispositions from the provincial meeting on public security and the national meeting for the directors of departments (and of bureaus and of general corps – ju, zong dui) on domestic security and defense and fully execute their functions. Intensify every assignment and further improve the work quality and standard in maintaining social and political stability to make a new contribution to the security of our country and the maintaining of social and political stability.

(1) Intensifying the battle against “Falungong” and firmly striking and effectively restraining the illegal and criminal activities of “Falungong”

The public security authorities at every level should put the reconnaissance and investigation of “Falungong” as their first task in the struggle against it. Keep focusing on investigating “Falungong” as a special case. Discover the inner stories of their illegal activities, unveil those who are plotting, organizing and directing behind the scenes. Be determined to destroy these organizations’ directing systems in local areas or those formed by groups. Fortify the strength of special case groups and intensify the reconnaissance and investigation of the special cases. To those die-hard “Falungong” members who went to Beijing to stir troubles during the Spring Festival this year, the public security authorities in each area should organize personnel to start investigating each one of them and finding out where they are from and where they will go. Regularly examine and analyze all of the case evidence, scrutinize the clues and find out the connections within them. Make the key members your priority; dig deep and check on them extensively. In regard to the specific cases identified by the provincial department or bureau, or by the local public security authorities, use all sources within a limited time to finalize the cases.  Make sure to pursue those at large who are on the lists with arrest warrants from the Ministry of Public Security and of the department of the province. Try to take them into custody promptly so as to restrain their activities and reduce damage to the society. Be sure to intensify controlling and preventing the important individuals, especially the professional and die-hard “Falungong” members. Pay attention to the movement of those important “Falungong” members who have not caught our attention before. Screen every one of them who has plotted and organized illegal activities of “Falungong” in the shadows, i.e. the station leaders, the professional “Falungong” members and those members who are able to get onto the Internet.  Find out the details about them and tighten control on them. Make sure to keep them to their local areas and prevent them from connecting and gathering, or going to Beijing to stir trouble. Put them into classes by force and use forceful methods if necessary. Firmly restrain any tendency for a “rebound” (fan tan) of illegal activities. Amplify and complete the prevention work in dealing with expected trouble-making mass events by the “Falungong” members. Differentiate various situations and devise relevant measures and countermeasures. Be sure to promptly and effectively handle any kind of riots to maintain the social stability. Intensify the judicial power and inflict severe legal punishment by law on all those plotting in the shadows, the professional “Falungong” members and the key members in the old “Falungong” practice or instruction stations who perpetuate new illegal and criminal activities. Enhance the consciousness of law and evidence and intensify the investigation and interrogation. Detect the illegal and criminal activities of the “Falungong” members, obtain the evidence, and severely punish them by law and terrify those who perpetuated illegal and criminal activities. 

(2) Intensify the reconnaissance and control of the important individuals and harshly attack their ongoing sabotage activities

The public security authorities in every area should further reinforce their study and examination of all situations of animosity as well as the characters, routines and activities of hostile elements. They should actively develop their work based on the principles of “keeping high vigilance, maintaining pressure, focusing on prevention and reducing damage.”  Take the “Temporary methods in management control and surveillance on ‘six kinds of persons’” as the crux of the matter and reinforce control on the important individuals. Unyieldingly implement the systems of various responsibilities in management at different levels and identify the specific measurements and responsibilities of a job. Make full use of the advantage of the secret medium, such as reconnaissance performed by secret agents. At the same time publicly apply management medium, and thus combine the medium of both secret and public. Get ahold of accurate information on the activities perpetuated by the antagonistic elements and promptly stop their illegal connection, instigation and assembling.  Promptly prevent these elements from intervening in some hot social issues (she hui re dian wen ti) and making up incidents to conduct their plots, as well as damaging activities during some sensitive periods, on holidays or at the time when an important political event takes place. The public security authorities should further reinforce the reconnaissance and investigation of special cases and rapidly investigate and promptly finalize more serious and harmful cases. Deal with the small number of the leading key members in a timely fashion to prevent them from forming into a center or a group to become more influential. As for those activities of an “organizing a party” under various names with all kinds of means, discover them quickly, strike them when they appear and decisively punish them by law so as to destroy them in the cradle without giving them a chance to form into a powerful force and cause more damage. Reinforce intelligence and handling of the attempt by the hostile elements abroad to “charging through the pass” (chuang guan refers to sneak through the customs –editor’s note); keep high vigilance on those plotting violent and terrorist activities. Keep tight surveillance and make discreet plans to relentlessly smash their evil attempts. Try to discover in advance any financial assistance from abroad or any connection in and out of the province so as to effectively control, prohibit and cut off related channels. For those who opened up enterprises (kuai ban shi ti) for the purpose of “supporting the politics with business” (yi shang yang zheng), improve investigative capabilities and intensify the control and handling of power to prevent them from spreading and becoming an economic strength or a political power to openly defy us. Reinforce the reconnaissance and surveillance on animosity in the realm of ideology and absolutely prevent any antagonistic power and/or individuals from perpetuating infiltration through academic or cultural exchange, or under the name of a foundation. At present, we need to intensify in particular the battle on the internet and conquer the internet battlefields and increase the potentiality of investigation and reconnaissance. We should firmly assault the activities involving making, duplicating and spreading the damaging political information, and try our best to get the upper hand in the battle on the internet.

As for all sorts of incitement cases, we should gather forces to reconnoiter and discover them energetically and promptly. We should also intensify the work of patrolling and keeping on guard in some crucial areas and places as well as the public arena and try to catch the individuals who are still active (xian xing zuo an ren yuan) and diminish their impact in a timely fashion. 

(3) Investigating and punishing by the law the cults and their illegal activities under the name of religion to secure stability in religious realm

All public security authorities in every area should further fortify and intensify the work of investigation and banishment of the cult organizations. Reinforce the work on reconnoitering, controlling and striking all kinds of cult organizations and their secret gatherings. Inflict severe legal punishments on those leading key members who have plotted and organized illegal activities. As for the cult organization “Mainland China Administrative Executive Station” (zhong hua da lu xing zheng zhi shi zhan), the public security authorities should intensify their reconnaissance and investigations and try to take Teng Binglian and other key members into custody as quickly as possible and destroy its central organization a the proper time. We should vigorously intensify the reconnaissance and investigation on the special case, “Real God” (shi ji shen), discover its organizational systems in our province, obtain information on its leading key members, and completely ban the cult organization through the law. We should also make sure to implement control of the cult key members who have been punished by us to prevent them from changing their identities and setting up new activity centers for cult organizations.  We need to consolidate and intensify the work of investigation and banishment on the harmful qigong organizations, and actively prevent and punish through the law the riots or various activities organized by “Zhong gong,” “Huazang gong,” “Xiang gong” and other harmful qigong organizations, which should not be allowed to become powerful or influential. We should reinforce the effectiveness of controlling the front and implement reconnaissance measures on each and every important individual, keeping close surveillance on them. We should inflict relentless attacks on all sabotaging activities perpetuated by the key and die-hard members of “Zhong gong,” “Huazang gong,” “Xiang gong” and other harmful qigong organizations. We also need to conduct the careful and intensive work of returning the money which has been illegally collected by “Huazang gong,” so as to make sure that the people’s welfare is unharmed and the social stability is maintained.

We need to implement more measures of reconnaissance in the religious area, resist any infiltration from religious
organizations abroad, and prohibit and ban through the law any illegal activity in this area. We will further intensify our special work on the Catholics and detect and promptly obtain information on the infiltration and sabotaging activities perpetuated by the Vatican and the antagonistic Catholic forces abroad. We will resist and eliminate the negative influence brought by the Vatican’s “granting saints.” We should reinforce the investigation and reconnaissance of the key members of the underground Catholic churches and others who have close connections with the Vatican, and prevent them from getting in touch with outside forces and becoming more influential and harmful. We need to actively cooperate with the departments of the bureaus of religious affairs and of the united front (zong jiao tong zhan bu men) and continue educating and converting the underground bishops and priests in order to crush the underground forces and grasp the church authority.

(4) Keeping close surveillance over the enemy’s movements and political and social tendencies, and actively preventing mass events and handling them in a proper way 

All public security authorities in all areas need to integrate their daily work and utilize all channels and means to detect and obtain news and information which may affect the social stability, and then forewarn by reporting to the provincial Party Committee and government. The public security authorities, together with other related departments or bureaus, should
constantly conduct investigations and eliminate controversial issues among the people. We should carry out a specific
investigations and eliminate those problems that are obviously more consequential, and with which the people are very
concerned. We also need to pay close attention to those issues that may have obvious effects on social stability, such as
finance, state-owned business companies which have gone through reform, deficit or bankruptcy, and those companies that
may experience a huge impact from our joining the WTO. We should work together with other related offices to dissolve,
control and handle any symptom and tendency that may affect social stability and try to prevent and prohibit some mass
events from happening. In regard to the mass events that have already taken place, we should follow the guidelines,
principles, and regulations issued by both the Ministry of Public Security and the provincial department of the Public Security
on how to handle mass events and implement measures according to these events and deal with them in a proper way. 
Make new working proposals and complete the old ones about dealing with various kinds of mass events at different levels. 
Enhance tactics in handling events and intensify strategy research. Reinforce the practice for actual combat in order to
increase the effectiveness of controlling power over mass events. We should keep strict surveillance on the antagonistic
forces and individuals who, by taking advantage of internal contradictions (ren min nei bu mao dun), may attempt to
intervene in the affairs of business companies or schools by instigating and coercing the mass to plot “workers movements,”
“peasants movements” and “students movements.” With regard to those antagonistic elements who have become involved
in mass events, the backstage plotters of disturbance, and also those criminals who have beaten people, smashed, looted and burned properties, we should collect evidence about their activities in time, verify the evidence and severely punish them
through the law.

IV Some essential issues on attaching great importance to and reinforcing the fundamental work concerning domestic security and defense 

(1) Completely carrying on the fundamental work in domestic security and defense at the basic level and emphasizing the construction of domestic security and defense authorities

The fundamental work of domestic security and defense at the basic level is an important part of the essential work for public security and the cornerstone of all the work in domestic security and defense. The strength of the fundamental work at the basic level will affect or restrain the fighting capacity from functioning at its full potential, and is also related to whether or not the domestic security and defense continues to develop, which has been proven by experience through many years of struggle. Every public security authority at all levels should further implement the objectivities of the “Yangzhou Meeting” and intensively promote the work of domestic security and defense at the level of local police stations (pai chu suo). According to the general requirements made by the provincial department on the fundamental work of domestic security and defense at the basic level, the public security and defense authorities, with consideration to the situation in each local area, should set up clear goals with specific requirements in making long term plans for this type of work, and gradually implement them in a systematic way and at various stages. We need to continue our focus in setting up rules and regulations, establishing and perfecting the working systems of security and defense, responsibility, evaluation and other systems in the police stations. At the proper time, we need to emphasize the professional training of policemen from the local police stations (pai chu suo min jing) on the work of domestic security and defense and increase their professional skills and abilities. The provincial department will inspect the implementation of fundamental work at the basic level in order to promote further development of fundamental work of security and defense in the local police stations in the entire province.

Every county bureau of domestic security and defense stands on the front line in conducting covert battles by the public security authorities and maintaining the social and political stability. They are undertaking the fundamental and initial work in maintaining social and political stability and domestic security. We must greatly reinforce the construction of domestic security bodies and defense at the county level in order to bring into full play the function and advantage of basic public security authorities in maintaining social and political stability, in order to improve their potentiality in detection, prevention and control. In this way we can solidify the foundations, gain the initiative and enhance the logistics. We need to further identify the job responsibilities of the domestic security and defense authorities at the county level, clarify the goals and requirements, and explain the criteria of construction and evaluation so as to make the county security and defense authorities the sensitive intelligence antenna, the main pillar of the basic fundamental work, and the leading force in controlling and handling cases at an early stage. We should gradually construct and perfect the fundamental working systems in domestic security and defense at the basic level, which are guided by the domestic security and defense authorities at the county level and supported by the fundamental work of the local police stations as they promote each other
and develop together. This will surely implement every measure of work in maintaining social and political stability and
domestic security. All public security authorities should follow the construction criteria issued by the provincial government
for the domestic security and defense authorities at the county level, focus on building up good construction at different times
and stages and try to achieve all the goals within five years. We also need to complete and fortify the domestic security and
defense authorities at the county level to fortify these forces. In order to provide an effective guarantee that the work of the
domestic security and defense authorities will be carried out, we need to make sure we will increase support for the work of
domestic security and defense at the county level and change the present situation in which the technological equipment in
the basic domestic security and defense authorities is out of date and their funds are gravely lacking.