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Witnesses Talk About Li Hongzhi

    Recently, our staff reporters Zhang Yulai and Li Anda separately interviewed former colleagues and heard about their impressions of Li Hongzhi.

    Gao Xiaohu, formerly a member of the theatrical troupe of the Jilin provincial forest police detachment, now a staff member at the Jilin provincial foreign affairs service center, said Li Hongzhi was a very mediocre and ordinary person. At that time, the troupe was managed in a military way, it had a heavy schedule of rehearsal and performance, so Li simply could not find time to practice gong, one form of the martial art, and no one discovered that Li had any skill in this respect.

    Liu Junpeng, formerly a deputy head of the troupe and now deputy director of the Office of the Jilin Provincial Forest Fire Protection Headquarters, said Li Hongzhi was then a blower of trumpet, and his level was just up to average. At that time, the troupe required that everybody should write a brief summary each year, the summry Li Hongzhi wrote was very common and his handwriting was so so.

    Yan Guowu, chief of the former Changchun Cereals, Edible Oils and Foodstuffs Supply Corporation, said: Li Hongzhi was doing only ordinarily in his work in our unit. Once a deputy section chief asked him to go to a not so distant granary to examine safety work, but he refused, so "I told him if you don't go, I'll go! Then, he went with reluctance." Talking about Falun Gong, Yan Guowu said, "We know him full well. He had only a junior middle school education, he could not write even an ordinary material, not to speak a book, I simply can't believe he could write books.

    Tai Jingfeng, secretary of the former corporation's Communist Youth League committee, said, "Once Li Hongzhi came to our office, boasting that he could treat diseases by using Falun Gong technique, so several comrades jokingly asked him to give them treatment, but the result proved his treatment was ineffective."

    Qi Kuifan, general manager of the corporation, said "Previously, our organization had a staff of over 120 people, now the staff is cut to 36, but no one practices Falun Gong, nor have we discussed Falun Gong at ordinary time, because we know Li Hongzhi very well, nobody believes him"

    

    H104 Peking University Beat Tsinghua University in Boat Race

    The first boat race between Peking University and Tsinghua University was held in Beijing on July 28. Pictured here is Peking University team, the winner of the race.


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