Zhang Jing: The Sad Songs of Chinese Children Under Communist Rule

China’s traditional Children’s Day was established by the Republic of China in 1931, setting April 4th as Children’s Day, a tradition that is still followed in Taiwan today. Hong Kong, which has always regarded the Republic of China as the orthodox of Chinese culture, also continues to celebrate Children’s Day on April 4th.

After the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese Communist Party set June 1st as Children’s Day in 1950, following the footsteps of the former Soviet Union. Most countries that celebrate Children’s Day on June 1st are communist countries, such as North Korea, former Soviet Union, former East Germany, Vietnam, Cambodia, and others.

Under the indoctrination and brainwashing education of the Chinese Communist Party, children nationwide are instilled with the ideology of “loving the CCP,” “loving the party leader,” and “becoming successors to communism” from an early age. The red scarf worn by Chinese children is said to be dyed with the “fresh blood of martyrs,” their textbooks glorify stories like Dong Cunrui’s “sacrifice in blowing up enemy fortifications,” and they are engaged in activities promoting “extreme patriotism,” with calls to fight against imagined enemies like the United States and Japan.

However, the lives of Chinese children are far from happy. In recent years, there have been continuous reports of abnormal deaths and abuse of young children, with a particularly alarming increase in such incidents in the past year.

On May 20, 2024, a stabbing incident occurred at Mingde Elementary School in Wenfang Town, Guixi City, Jiangxi Province, reportedly resulting in at least 2 deaths and 10 injuries. The assailant was identified as a woman, rumored to be a relative of a teacher at the school.

Netizens expressed shock at how schools have become the most dangerous places. The economic downturn in recent years has led to heightened social tensions, with some individuals deliberately seeking revenge on society, often targeting young children and elementary school students as their victims. Incidents of stabbings involving kindergartens and primary school students have been on the rise, whether at the schools themselves, near school premises, or on the school grounds, making child safety both inside and outside of school a major concern for parents.

Incidents of students jumping off buildings and bullying within schools have also been frequently exposed. On March 13, 2024, Wang Ziyao, a 13-year-old student in Handan, Hebei, was bullied by three classmates and ultimately killed, his body buried in a vegetable greenhouse, his face unrecognizable from being struck with an iron shovel. The perpetrators even transferred 191 yuan from the victim’s WeChat account to their own, showing no remorse when confronted by the victim’s parents the next day. These young perpetrators, under the age of 14, were labeled as “devils” online for planning and committing the murder, while the victim’s father and lawyer who spoke out on social media were subjected to censorship, threats, and harassment.

In the case of Wang Ziyao’s murder, all three perpetrators and the victim were under 14 years of age, raising concerns under China’s “Law on the Protection of Minors” that the offenders may evade accountability due to their age. Parents witnessing their own children being bullied or murdered, while the perpetrators may escape justice, highlight the tragedy faced by Chinese parents and children.

In late December 2023, Yang Liuyang, a 14-year-old student at Yuhua Garden Middle School in Ningling County, Henan Province, mysteriously died on school premises, with visible signs of injuries on his body. His family suspected he had been subjected to violence prior to his death, but the Chinese authorities claimed it was a “suicide by jumping.” Rumors online suggested he was killed by a teacher and his body thrown from the 6th floor, while others mentioned he witnessed an affair between the principal and a female teacher, leading to the principal silencing him.

In early January 2024, the incident sparked mass protests demanding the truth, only to be swiftly suppressed by the police. Authorities detained the deceased’s family, shut down local networks, arrested hundreds of people, and forced those who had filmed videos to sign a “guarantee” committing not to share the footage online. Additionally, nearly 2000 police officers were mobilized to block highways and prevent outside support from reaching Ningling.

Despite efforts to conceal the truth, manipulate public opinion, and suppress the families involved, the question remains as to how schools with such a dark environment, complicit principals, and teachers can continue to operate.

Moreover, reports have emerged of officials, elites, teachers, and principals being involved in child prostitution incidents. In a recent incident involving the Honglou Club, a whistleblower revealed shocking details, including the disclosure that the youngest girl at the club was “14 years old, a junior high school student,” inadvertently exposing the reality of officials engaging in child prostitution.

There have been previous instances of officials engaging in child prostitution. Reportedly, following the collapse of the Xingjia Quarantine Hotel in Quanzhou, Fujian in 2020, investigators discovered one of the largest post-communist cases of officials collectively committing rape and child prostitution. The case involved over 500 employees of the Quanzhou government, including hundreds of officials, who had been providing underage virgins to a gang member named Huang for over 10 years.

Under the protection of corrupt officials, the common people and children are the ones who suffer. The so-called “flowers of the motherland,” in the eyes of these officials, elites, entrepreneurs, principals, and teachers, are destroyed, subjected to rape, exploitation, and worse, leaving one to wonder how these children will navigate the rest of their lives.

Adding to the horrors, a recent case involved Wang Sijun, an 8-year-old girl from Zhaotong, Yunnan, who, in August 2023, was deceived into undergoing a medical examination at the Yunnan Red Cross Hospital, subsequently coerced into hospitalization, and eventually had her organs stolen by the hospital, a shocking revelation.

According to the girl’s mother, Wang Sijun underwent extensive blood draws and intravenous infusions while hospitalized in the pediatric ward. On the eighth day of her hospitalization, Wang Sijun inexplicably died in the nephrology ward. Her mother was not informed of her child’s death and, upon hearing the news from others, rushed to the kidney department, only to be barred from seeing her daughter’s body by the hospital staff.

The autopsy results revealed that Wang Sijun’s “most precious possessions within her body” had disappeared mysteriously. Despite this, the hospital pressured the grieving mother to sign an “organ donation consent form” after her daughter’s death. Wang Sijun’s medical records were only completed after her death, with her mother also revealing a chilling detail that there were multiple children in the pediatric ward with male and female wards and nurses stationed at the doors, all receiving the same medications.

Wang Sijun’s case highlights the shameless extent hospitals go to in acquiring organs, as the hospital lured an unsuspecting child from a rural background to exploit her organs. Local health authorities neglected to open an investigation, leaving the case unresolved for nearly a year. The grieving mother vowed to seek justice for her child, but under the Chinese Communist regime, can this wish ever become a reality?

Such cases are widespread, with prior incidents like that of Hu Xinyu, who disappeared while walking a mere 100 meters after attending evening self-study sessions at school. Many suspect Hu Xinyu was targeted during a physical examination for the high school entrance exam, with a network of complicity involving school officials, homeroom teachers, local government, and even provincial police.

Children born in the People’s Republic of China harbor deep sorrow. Too many unforeseen accidents lead to tragic outcomes. Accidents, harm, disappearances, trafficking, bullying, deliberate malice, rape, organ trafficking – all these atrocities happening within the Communist regime’s educational system, with the Communist Party being the root cause of this chaos.