What the CCP Fears Most

Falun Dafa practitioners take part in a march calling for the end of the Chinese Communist Party’s 26 years of persecution of Falun Gong in China, in Washington on July 17, 2025. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

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“If 100 million people are practicing it, that’s 100 billion yuan saved per year in medical fees. Premier Zhu Rongji is very happy about that. The country could use the money right now.”

That quote was from an unnamed official at China’s state sports commission, as reported by U.S. News and World Report in February 1999.