On Nov. 14, 2025, a document issued by the CCP Central Leading Group for United Front Work sparked widespread international concern. Former Inner Mongolia official Du Wen revealed the document’s full details for the first time on YouTube and provided an in-depth analysis. He exposed the CCP’s comprehensive crackdown on religious belief — such as Falun Gong — among minors, including policies encouraging children to report on their parents and stripping parents of the right to provide religious education at home—an extreme attempt to sever the transmission of faith. These policies signal that under Xi Jinping, China is moving toward a more closed, totalitarian “spiritual iron curtain.”
Crackdown on youth faith: Religion treated as national security threat
According to Du Wen, the document explicitly defines minors’ religious activities as a “national security threat” and launches a joint operation involving the police, state security, cyberspace units, propaganda, education, broadcasting, internet regulators, and disciplinary agencies. Key points include:
- Ban on Family Religious Education: Parents may not pass on religious beliefs to their children in any form. Religious activities at home are deemed illegal. Schools are required to mobilize students to report their parents’ religious activities, sowing distrust and division within families.
- Comprehensive Monitoring System: Police, state security, and cyber units are ordered to monitor key individuals, groups, and areas. Any speech or behavior involving religion may be tracked. Summer camps, study trips, and extracurricular programs are targeted to prevent “foreign infiltration.”
- Ideological Monopoly in Schools: Minors are required to accept only “Xi Jinping Thought’s atheist belief system.” Religious belief is labeled an enemy force opposed to the national education system. Schools must act as “ideological security outposts,” with teachers serving as belief-screening agents.
- Tight Control of the Internet and Public Space: The internet, film and TV, social media, and AI are included in the religious-content blockade system. Public figures may not express religious belief. Any religious elements in content may be scrubbed.
Du Wen said the CCP has politicized, securitized, and militarized religious belief, treating it as “hostile infiltration.” Through nationwide surveillance and inter-agency cooperation, the regime seeks to eliminate the spread of religion in China. He noted that encouraging children to report their parents echoes Cultural Revolution practices, destroying family ethics and human trust.
Xi Jinping’s totalitarian logic: From victim to perpetrator
Du Wen further argued that the document reflects Xi Jinping’s personal experiences and ideological convictions. During the Cultural Revolution, Xi’s father Xi Zhongxun was labeled a traitor, and young Xi was forced to denounce him and undergo political vetting. This shaped Xi’s fixation on ideological control and his belief that only monopolizing thought and securing loyalty from the next generation can prevent betrayal. Encouraging children to report their parents is an extreme product of this logic. The state intends to control not just bodies and speech, but also families and souls, severing the transmission of faith.
Du Wen stated that Xi Jinping has transformed from a victim of the Cultural Revolution into a perpetrator—reflecting the tragedy of the CCP system itself. This document is not only a policy directive but a destruction of China’s spiritual landscape, forcing young people to grow up without faith, spirit, or values beyond party loyalty. He warned that such measures push China toward suffocating oppression.
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26 years of systematic persecution of Falun Gong
In reality, the CCP sees all religious beliefs as enemies.
According to Minghui.org, since the CCP launched its nationwide persecution of Falun Gong—whose teachings center on “Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance”—in July 1999, practitioners have suffered a 26-year campaign of systematic abuse. This includes illegal detention, imprisonment, over a hundred torture methods, forced “transformation,” psychological abuse, and economic deprivation. Thousands have been confirmed dead from torture or mistreatment, though the real number may be far higher due to censorship and cover-ups.
Large numbers of practitioners have been sent to labor camps, prisons, and brainwashing centers, facing electric shocks, forced feeding, sleep deprivation, and many other forms of torture. Families were torn apart, and children were discriminated against or punished due to their parents’ belief. The CCP’s extralegal 610 Office, similar to the Gestapo, has overseen surveillance, harassment, and information suppression. Many detained practitioners have been used as a vast organ bank, subjected to on-demand forced organ harvesting. The persecution continues despite international condemnation.
Youth also targeted
Minghui.org reports that since July 1999, young Falun Gong practitioners—including schoolchildren, college students, and adults under 35—have been systematically targeted through kidnapping, detention, torture, brainwashing, forced labor, and punishment of family members. The goal is to destroy the faith of “Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance,” strip educational rights, and inflict psychological trauma.
Cases in the past five years (2020–2024) include dozens of “post-85,” “post-90,” and “post-00” young people arrested for handing out information, appealing, or refusing to renounce their belief. Examples include:
- Jiang Yong (31, Changchun) — abducted in 2021, sentenced to 8.5 years, died from torture in 2023.
- Wang Chaojie (35, Anyang teacher) — sentenced to 7 years in 2022.
- Wu Jiajian (36) — sentenced to 6 years in 2020; his mother died from grief.
- Middle-schooler Chen Si (Chongqing) — beaten, force-fed, and confined in a psychiatric hospital.
- Young girl Zhang Yuxin — her mother sentenced to 4 years; her family collapsed.
- Li Da (24, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine grad student) — sentenced to 3.5 years.
- Yao Yuanying (26, Beijing Normal University PhD) — sent to labor camp, subjected to sleep deprivation and forced labor.
Torture methods include beatings, electric shocks, “eagle torture,” forced ingestion of filth, sexual abuse, and more—often harsher for youth. Families face raids, collective punishment, and discrimination. From 2011–2023, dozens of students were detained, many after school reports or police raids.
Elderly not spared
In October, 74-year-old Liaoning resident Men Yulin died four days after his release from a seven-year sentence for practicing Falun Gong. He was severely emaciated, mentally disoriented, and unable to recognize his children. His wife had earlier died due to persecution. Three other elderly practitioners—Yan Xuguang (66), Liu Dianyuan (86), and Zhai Yongchi (69)—also died from long-term detention, medical neglect, and abuse in the same prison. Prison chief Cong Chunsheng has been accused of extreme torture methods including force-feeding feces and urine, shocking sensitive areas, wrist-hanging, scalding with boiling water, crushing toes, and scraping ribs, as well as sleep and toilet deprivation and forced consumption of toilet water. Prisoners were also forced to watch propaganda meant to break their will.
In July 2025, practitioners from 45 countries—including the U.S., Canada, the UK, and the 27 EU nations—submitted a new list of perpetrators to their governments, urging sanctions and asset freezes. Cong Chunsheng was listed among them.
Justice will prevail
Du Wen argued that the CCP’s directive shows the regime is running counter to global civilization. By labeling religious belief a national security threat, stripping parents of educational rights, and encouraging children to report on parents, the CCP violates human rights and destroys social ethics. He warned that if these policies persist, China may become a “spiritual desert and ruin,” where young people grow up without faith or values, draining society of vitality. However, he remains optimistic, believing the CCP cannot truly extinguish belief.
Canadian author and democracy activist Sheng Xue has repeatedly urged democratic nations to condemn the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong and other religious groups. She believes that in this battle between “Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance” and CCP tyranny, Falun Gong practitioners—by exposing forced organ harvesting and persistently telling the truth for 26 years—have formed a global force for justice that terrifies the CCP. Their resilience will help bring about the regime’s downfall, and justice will ultimately prevail.
