Two Executives of Toronto Group Listed as an ‘Overseas Chinese Police Station’ Met With Police in China: Reports

A building in a business park in Markham, Ont., is seen on Oct. 31, 2022, one of three locations in the Greater Toronto Area identified by Spain-based human rights group Safeguard Defenders as being among the sites of at least 54 unofficial police stations allegedly run by police bureaus in China. The Canadian Press/Cole Burston

Two executives of a Chinese business association in Toronto whose  address is on a list of Chinese “police service stations” in other countries attended events in China with local police and other government officials to discuss providing policing services to overseas Chinese, according to reports and photos posted by multiple local state-run media outlets and on various WeChat channels in China.

The two men, Weng Guoning and Yu Lin, are both senior members of the Canada Toronto Fuqing Business Association (CTFQBA). The CTFQBA’s Markham, Ont., address appears on a list of 30 “Fuzhou police overseas service stations” in 21 countries. The Fujian Overseas Chinese Press published the list as part of a news article on a press conference held on Jan. 22, 2022, by the Fuzhou Public Security Bureau’s “110 overseas police service desk” on its establishment of those stations.