Hello, audience friends! Welcome to watch “The Century Truth”.
Family planning is one of the Chinese Communist Party’s “basic national policies.” However, in reality, it is an organized and planned massacre of babies and fetuses.
Since 1980, the Chinese Communist Party has enforced the family planning policy, leading to horrifying slogans such as “Better to end the family line than let the party down,” “Sterilization if necessary, capture on sight,” and “Abort if necessary, absolutely cannot give birth.”
In 2009, the CCP Population and Family Planning Commission admitted that family planning had kept China’s population at 1.3 billion instead of 1.7 billion, essentially acknowledging that this policy had led to the deaths of four hundred million fetuses or even infants over 29 years.
Family planning also sparked what was claimed to be the first large-scale shooting incident since the CCP took power. The shooter was a CCP soldier, and the location was a street in Beijing’s city center.
Today, let’s delve into the event that occurred 30 years ago.
On September 20, 1994, which was also the Mid-Autumn Festival that year, in the town of Tongxian, now Tongzhou District in Beijing, on the drill ground of the Third Regiment of the Beijing Garrison, soldiers were lined up neatly, waiting for the regimental political commissar to review their exercises.
Captain Tian Mingjian, who had just turned 30 that day, did not have to participate in the drills due to being suspended from duty. He walked up to the reviewing stand, took out a Type 81 automatic rifle and six magazines he had stolen from the armory the previous night and hidden under a chair, then shouted, “Lie down.”
The lined-up soldiers instinctively obeyed the command and lay down, while the four officers on the reviewing stand were momentarily stunned. In that moment, four gunshots rang out, and the four officers, including the regimental political commissar, were killed. Chaos erupted in the military camp.
Taking advantage of the confusion, Tian Mingjian fled the camp, hijacked a Beijing-licensed Jeep on the highway, and ordered the driver to head to the center of Beijing.
When the Jeep reached Jianguomen in the city center, the driver intentionally crashed the car into a tree, trying to flee, but was shot dead by Tian Mingjian.
After getting off the vehicle, Tian Mingjian attempted to hijack a taxi to continue forward. However, when the taxi driver did not cooperate, he shot the driver, who fell to the ground.
Due to the unexpected event, the streets near Jianguomen were severely congested, and Tian Mingjian aimed his gun at innocent pedestrians.
The CCP Special Police Force quickly arrived at Jianguomen after receiving the alert. Seeing Tian Mingjian armed and in uniform, they did not take any chances and engaged in a fierce gun battle with him.
A bus inadvertently drove into the crossfire. If it had sped through, it could have avoided the situation. However, in a panic, the driver stopped the bus in the middle of the road, and several passengers on the bus were injured by bullets passing through the vehicle.
Despite continuous attempts by large numbers of armed police to overpower and capture Tian Mingjian, a highly trained marksman, proficient in changing magazines with one hand and accurate shooting, held his ground coolly in the face of the confrontation.
Each time his gun sounded, military and police personnel fell. The gunfight lasted for two and a half hours, with over 6,000 CCP Special Agents, Armed Police, and Public Security teams deployed.
After an intense gun battle, including the military engaging in combat, Tian Mingjian had exhausted his 180 rounds of ammunition, keeping one bullet for himself, and committed suicide. There are also claims that he was shot by a sniper from his own unit.
Tian Mingjian fell silent. It was half an hour before CCP military police cautiously approached.
Jianguomen is near the embassy district, where some foreign diplomats and their families reside near the site of the shooting incident.
An Iranian diplomat was driving his child to school at the time and both the diplomat and his nine-year-old son were shot dead. Two other children were injured.
Many foreigners residing in nearby diplomatic apartments witnessed the scene. A Canadian television station began broadcasting the event live but was later cut off by the CCP authorities.
According to the United Press International (UPI), a witness described Tian Mingjian as appearing “calm, intermittently firing as if in a drill. He did not act like a madman.”
The UPI report also mentioned the tragic deaths in the shooting incident, including an elderly person exercising in the park, a young boy riding on the back of his mother’s bicycle, and at least one passenger killed when the gunman attempted to hijack a taxi.
The exact toll of casualties in the gun battle remains a mystery. Official figures later released state that 25 people died, including 8 military and police personnel, with 50 others injured.
Despite being dubbed a “marksman” and promoted from an ordinary soldier, and even receiving further military education with promising opportunities, why did Tian Mingjian commit such actions?
Hailing from Zhangzhuang, Huaibin County, Henan Province, both of Tian Mingjian’s parents were farmers. In those times, the only way for a farmer to excel was to join the army.
At the age of 17, Tian Mingjian enlisted. After some training, his unit conducted live-fire marksmanship assessments for new recruits.
According to an article published in Huaxia Digest, Tian Mingjian performed poorly in the assessment, hitting the target only once out of ten shots.
His instructor, initially angry at his poor performance, discovered that his one shot had hit the bullseye, which left him puzzled.
Out of curiosity, the instructor inspected the target and was astonished. All ten shots from Tian Mingjian seemed to have come out of the same hole in the bullseye.
He asked Tian Mingjian to shoot again, and the same phenomenon occurred, every shot hitting the bullseye. Even the instructor marveled, calling him a “genius.”
From then on, Tian Mingjian earned the nickname “Gun God” or “Marksman.”
Though hailing from a rural background, Tian Mingjian seemed to have a natural talent in military skills, excelling in various areas and even securing second place in a national shooting competition held within the military.
Military service back then was for four years, and failure to receive promotion within that time led to automatic discharge.
Tian Mingjian’s initial instructor admired him and recommended further education. This led Tian Mingjian to be enrolled in a military school, undergoing a transformation from soldier to officer.
During his grassroots leadership, Tian Mingjian developed a special rifle combat technique for special forces, one-handed magazine reloading, which became popular. Additionally, he promoted a method for simultaneous shooting with an automatic rifle and pistol to adapt to close combat or urban warfare needs. His expertise in combat tactics earned him the title of “King of Soldiers.”
In 1988, at the age of 24, Tian Mingjian was transferred to the elite Beijing Garrison Third Regiment of the CCP and became a staff officer.
Given his trajectory, one would think he had a bright future ahead, but why did he end up shooting his superiors, colleagues, and innocent bystanders in the streets of Beijing?
The CCP officially claimed that Tian Mingjian had done it out of revenge against society. The explanation was that he had received favors from a soldier but failed to deliver, leading to the soldier reporting him for bribery. In addition, he had an altercation with a soldier who wanted leave for family matters, which ended in physical violence.
Tian Mingjian was suspended for reflection, but he not only refused to admit his mistakes but also confronted his superiors, resulting in disciplinary action and a warning: shape up or go back to farming.
However, the CCP’s official explanation faced scrutiny. People familiar with Tian Mingjian disclosed that he was shrewd, tactful, and had good relationships within the hierarchy. It raised doubts whether these incidents triggered such extreme actions.
At that time, Hong Kong media divulged rumors about Tian Mingjian’s bloody vendetta, a narrative widely accepted outside, reasoning that this was his true motivation.
Tian Mingjian and his wife in their rural hometown had a daughter. However, like most rural families, his biggest desire was to have a son and bring the entire family to live a better life in Beijing.
But due to the strict family planning policy in his registered hometown of Henan Province, he and his wife did not qualify for a second child.
Hence, when his wife became pregnant with a second child, Tian Mingjian concealed it from the unit.
During his suspension, his correspondence was inspected by the military, which revealed his wife’s pregnancy to the authorities.
Enforcement of the family planning policy was relentless, under the “one vote veto system.” Any unit found breaching the policy faced cancellation of all achievements for the year and disciplinary measures. The military leadership not only criticized Tian Mingjian but also informed the family planning office in his hometown.
Accompanied by officials from the hometown’s family planning office, they forcibly terminated his wife’s pregnancy. She was already seven months pregnant, and an incident in the procedure led to the deaths of both mother and child, a baby boy.
Shortly before the shooting incident, Tian Mingjian received a call from his elderly father informing him, “The child is gone, it was a boy, and your wife is also dead.”
Feeling devastated, Tian Mingjian lost all hope. With his wife and child gone, he saw the world for what it was.
Dealing with his wife’s unauthorized pregnancy, his superiors turned their backs, lacking any compassion. Despite earning the unit honors and bringing political gains to superiors, they chose to sacrifice him under the “one vote veto system” to preserve themselves.
Thus, on the Mid-Autumn Festival of 1994, also his 30th birthday, Tian Mingjian embarked on an irreversible path.
In reality, the superiors, colleagues, and all those killed or injured in the incident were victims of the CCP’s family planning policy.
Imagine, without the ruthless family planning policy, one-child policy, and veto system, this tragedy may not have occurred.
Reflecting on the shocking shooting incident that shook the nation 30 years ago is not merely to revisit the tragic event but also to reflect on the systemic roots behind it.
After more than 35 years and the deaths of over four hundred million fetuses, the CCP announced the full implementation of the two-child policy in 2015.
The CCP’s policies constantly change, leaving ordinary Chinese citizens in a constant state of uncertainty.
That concludes today’s program. Thank you for watching, and we will see you next time.
Subscribe to the Clean World Channel:
https://www.ganjing.com/channel/1f702725eeg3uz4eAgKxHgadC1kh0c
Subscribe to the YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ0WwxWijk8NemAqLtqj4Sw
Subscribe to the Telegram Group:
https://t.me/bainianzhenxiang
The Century Truth Program Production Team