English Translation
We sincerely request your media to conduct an in-depth investigation and report on an incident taking place across China. A holder of a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Peking University has exploited his professional expertise in psychology alongside pyramid selling tactics on self-media platforms including WeChat Channels live streaming, defrauding over 200,000 mothers aged mainly between 30 and 60 and amassing approximately 10 billion RMB in illegal gains.
Lin Ju, the actual controller of Beijing Huajing Education, together with his spouse Zhang Yan (who uses the alias Zhang Yang), controls more than a dozen companies across the country. Operating under a well-disguised legal facade, they host live streams from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. every Monday and Wednesday on WeChat Channels, Douyin and Xiaohongshu. They sell courses priced at 999 RMB, which have attracted over 200,000 paying participants. Leveraging his educational background as a graduate of the Department of Psychology at Peking University, Lin Ju conducts psychological indoctrination during the courses. Afterwards, he promotes premium courses costing 69,800 RMB, with more than 50,000 people signing up for them. Continuous indoctrination is carried out in these sessions.
Using high-paying job opportunities as bait, the group further charges an annual membership fee of 39,800 RMB, a 3,000 RMB "supervision fee" and a 2,000 RMB "certification fee". The standard contracts for the courses contain unfair clauses. The group creates an isolated environment where participants are forbidden from contacting one another. The training content includes harmful materials, feudal superstition, watching horror movies, reciting incantations and completing bizarre assignments, while instilling outlandish ideas.
Many participants have fallen out with their family members and neglected their households and children. The advocates of "four freedoms" for children — full freedom over mobile phones, time, emotions and snacks — have led to school suspension and mobile game addiction among nearly all children of the over 200,000 participants. The total revenue accumulated through these operations stands at around 10 billion RMB.
The group also retaliates against participants and their family members who seek to defend their rights. They engage professional lawyers, including Lin Bo (Lin Ju's younger brother, a law graduate from Tsinghua University) and Zhou Lu, a lawyer with nine years of practice at Beijing Yutai Law Firm. These legal professionals draft standard course contracts, settlement agreements and non-disclosure agreements that are manifestly unfair, infringing upon people's legitimate rights and seeking improper benefits for the group.
The courses are filled with superstitious content. In his lecture videos, Lin Ju claims: "We have pioneered the philosophy of undifferentiated love, and we aim to reshape the existing world." To back up his stance on unrestricted mobile phone use for children, he fabricates remarks attributed to Karl Marx: "Do not take my words for it; listen to Marx. Marx stated that mobile phones represent advanced productive forces and advanced production relations."
He also labels bans on minors under 16 from accessing social media implemented in the United Kingdom, Spain and Australia as practices of "backward countries", and falsely claims that "China is far more advanced than European and American nations".
This individual and his gang take advantage of legal loopholes to conduct illicit activities under the cover of legitimate corporate operations, harming hundreds of thousands of women and children. Dozens of affected participants and their family members have united to file complaints, reports to the police and lawsuits, yet we have encountered great difficulties in seeking redress. We are in possession of substantial factual evidence and are ready to provide it for your investigation.
