Zemin launched a nationwide eradication campaign in an attempt to stamp out the peaceful practice.

It grew to have an estimated 100 million practitioners in 1999 when CCP leader Jiang Zemin unilaterally launched a persecution campaign aimed at eradicating the practice.

However, in July 1999, then-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin launched a nationwide propaganda campaign and persecution of the spiritual practice. 

However, on July 20, 1999, the then-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin banned the spiritual system and launched a persecutory campaign, which continues to this day, leading to numerous practitioners rounded up and thrown into detention centers

‘Relief and Remediation’ to CCP’s Cruel Persecution Since July 20, 1999—the day former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin issued a ban on Falun Dafa—millions of Falun Gong practitioners have been detained in jails and detention facilities across the country,

In a letter circulated among Politburo members on the night of April 25, 1999, then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin outlined why he believed Falun Gong should be eradicated.

In July of that year, former CCP leader Jiang Zemin launched an illegal campaign to persecute adherents due to the practice’s popularity and the fact that wasn’t under the control of the regime.

Hu said, “Jiang Zemin allowed capitalists to join the Party. Isn’t that strange? Communism was supposed to eliminate the bourgeoisie.”

Jiang Zemin Began Paying Attention to Dawning as Early as 1993 The attention towards Dawning can be traced back to when Jiang Zemin, the former leader of the Chinese Communist Party, was in power.

The practice gained wide-spread popularity throughout Chinese society during the 1990s, only to be suppressed by former CCP leader Jiang Zemin in 1999.

Guo has defended the adherents of the spiritual practice Falun Gong and openly spoke against the persecution, which has continued since 1999 when former leader Jiang Zemin ordered a brutal suppression.

Since then, Jiang Zemin [the paramount leader of China in 2004] has utilized all media repeatedly to fabricate and spread lies and slander about Falun Gong.

Twenty years ago today, the Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin delivered the order to “eradicate” the spiritual discipline known as Falun Gong, and started a campaign to demonize, imprison, re-educate millions of people across the nation.

Twenty-three years ago, former leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Jiang Zemin initiated a nationwide campaign to "eradicate" Falun Gong, as he viewed the peaceful practice a threat to the regime's totalitarian ideologies.

And this is a completely different methodology under previous regime bosses Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, who favored crony capitalism and making money without ruffling the established world order. In other words, the Party knows best.

(Handout) The 14 Chinese officials listed in the petition include former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin, the main perpetrator of the persecution campaign, who sought to eradicate Falun Gong due to fear that the practice's immense popularity

The Shanghai Gang, led by former CCP leader Jiang Zemin, has experienced heavy losses from Xi’s ongoing anti-corruption campaign, Kondapalli said.

Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, and Hu Jintao all encouraged foreign direct investment (FDI), private companies, and innovation. As a result, by the turn of the century the private sphere had grown larger than the traditional state-owned sector.

Since Jiang Zemin, former leader of the regime, ordered the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999, the adherents have been subject to severe monitoring, harassment, surveillance, stalking, detention, imprisonment, and even torturing to death on sensitive

When Xi came to power in 2012, the Party was dominated by a faction loyal to former Party leader Jiang Zemin. The faction was planning a coup, to have the Jiang loyalist Bo Xilai usurp Xi. The plan did not bear fruit.

Jiang Zemin, leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) at the time, said he would defeat Falun Gong. His orders were: “Ruin their reputations. Bankrupt them financially. Destroy them physically.”

In 1999, Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin ordered the eradication of Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong.

In contrast, Jiang Zemin has made himself the most notorious scum in the world, for being the main perpetrator of the persecution of Falun Gong.

But three months later, a nationwide, systematic persecution against the ancient the spiritual discipline was launched by Jiang Zemin, then leader of the Party.

It was this resurgence of traditional Chinese culture, quashed during the Cultural Revolution, with a focus on health, morality, and honesty, that caused CCP hard-liners like then President Jiang Zemin to look for (or create) reasons to crack down on

Ten years later, on July 20, 1999, Jiang Zemin began his suppression of Falun Gong.

In 1999, Jiang Zemin wrote: “Improve the development and application of rare earths, and change the resource advantage into economic superiority.”

CCP leader Jiang Zemin perceived that popularity as a threat to the regime’s rule. On July 20, 1999, Jiang launched an unprecedented campaign and brutal oppression aimed at eradicating the practice.

It's the strategy used by former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, who initiated the persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999, to thoroughly and effectively eradicate the practitioners of the discipline without alerting the international community, according

However, then-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin deemed the large number of adherents a potential threat to its totalitarian rule, and in July 1999, launched a brutal oppression campaign to eradicate Falun Gong.