Gu Lingdi: Criminal Report Letter Concerning Organized Crime and Gang-Related Crime

Criminal Report Letter Concerning Organized Crime and Gang-Related Crime

Information on the complainant:

Name: Gu Lingdi, Sex: Female, Date of birth: October 4, 1956

Citizen identity card number: 320211195610042521

Address: Room 301, No. 274 Qianjin Garden, Xinwu District, Wuxi City, Telephone: 13771527599

The complainant is the wife of Zhang Jianzhong, investor in Wuxi Zhendong Machinery Factory.

Information on the criminal suspects:

Jiangxi Subdistrict, Xinwu District, Wuxi City: then Party secretary Zhang Yuxia, director Wu Qi, deputy director Chen Weihong (in charge of demolition), director of the Demolition Office Hua Jinsheng, person in charge of urban management Zhang Chunquan, Qianjin Village Committee secretary Li Yun, as well as the socially idle persons they have hired over a long period.

Suspected offenses:

1. Suspected crime of forging official documents of state organs;

2. Suspected crime of forging seals of state organs;

3. Suspected crime of abuse of power;

4. Suspected crime of intentional destruction of property;

5. Suspected crime of robbery;

6. Suspected crime of theft;

7. Suspected crime of unlawful detention;

8. Suspected crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble;

9. Suspected crime of unlawful intrusion into a residence;

10. Suspected crime of extortion;

11. Suspected crime of intentional injury;

12. Suspected crime of organizing and leading an organization with the nature of a criminal syndicate.

Suspected criminal facts:

In order to rob and plunder the complainant’s lawful factory and then obtain huge illegal profits through demolition, the criminal suspects first forged an urban-management seal and, in violation of the law, designated the complainant’s lawful factory buildings as illegal structures. They then abused their power, under the pretext of demolishing illegal structures, to organize gang-related personnel to destroy and level the lawful factory buildings. Since 2012, the criminal suspects have committed the following criminal acts:

1. Abusing their power and committing wrongdoing, using gang-related methods, and for a long period hiring criminal forces and involving industry and commerce, taxation, environmental protection, urban management and public-security authorities. The suspects and their hired personnel repeatedly forced their way into the complainant’s factory, intimidating, threatening, insulting, pushing, beating and provoking the complainant and her family, including factory workers. When the complainant called the police, police officers astonishingly entered with guns and acted as a protective umbrella for the gang-related infringement;

2. Over a long period, repeatedly hiring gang-related personnel to cause trouble at the complainant’s factory by cutting off its water, electricity and road access;

3. Forging an urban-management seal to produce a penalty decision, and illegally designating the complainant’s lawful buildings as illegal structures;

4. Organizing and leading gang-related personnel, using gang-related violence to first kidnap and unlawfully detain the complainant and her husband, then robbing and stealing all the equipment and materials inside the complainant’s factory, and finally destroying and leveling the factory;

5. After the factory was robbed and the complainant reported the matter and petitioned, the criminal suspects continued to hire repeatedly convicted persons to come to the complainant’s home to intimidate and threaten her, saying such things as “I’ll kill your entire family.”

After the complainant reported the matter and petitioned, the criminal suspects fabricated and falsified information, concealed the truth from higher authorities while deceiving those below them, distorted and invented facts in false reports to their superiors, and to this day—12 years later—have neither returned the property nor provided lawful resettlement, compensation or damages, causing the complainant enormous property losses.

Requests in the report:

The complainant respectfully asks leaders at all levels to pay attention to this case, order the relevant functional departments to accept the report in accordance with the law, investigate the suspected criminal facts in accordance with the law, transfer matters involving suspected crimes to the relevant functional departments for handling in accordance with the law, and promptly inform the complainant of procedural matters including acceptance of the case and the results of investigation and handling.

Facts and grounds

I. Lawful source of the property

Zhang Jianzhong (the complainant’s husband) applied in 1995 to establish Wuxi Zhendong Machinery Factory (see Attachment 1: copies of the Business License and Organization Code Certificate). The factory was located inside the Qianjin Cultural Supplies Factory. The Qianjin Cultural Supplies Factory was a village-run collective enterprise. Because the Taihu Garden supporting project (the Taihu Garden farmers’ market) needed to be built, Zhendong Machinery Factory’s business premises were relocated, but it received no compensation. In June 2000, following Zhang Jianzhong’s application and approval by the village and township governments, consent was first given to build premises inside the village auxiliary-agent factory, and later changed to consent to rebuild premises on the dilapidated factory buildings in the unexpropriated area inside the Qianjin Cultural Supplies Factory. The factory area consisted of a two-story building and attached rooms and other facilities. Zhang Jianzhong signed a Land Paid-Use Agreement with the Qianjin Village Committee (see Attachment 2). After the factory buildings were completed in May 2001, the business continued to operate. In the more than 10 years that followed, governments at all levels raised no objection. Under the law at the time, the property therefore constituted lawful property.

The Land Paid-Use Agreement shows that on January 1, 2001, Zhang Jianzhong and the Qianjin Village Committee (signed by its legal representative Zhou Peigen) entered into the agreement, stipulating a land-use term of 30 years. Item 3 of the “Terms Agreed by Both Parties” expressly states: “Party A agrees that Party B may rebuild the old house on the original site, and Party B shall own the property rights to the buildings.” This provision confirmed the legality and ownership of the complainant’s factory buildings.

II. Because of the demolition, the criminal suspects developed criminal intent, forged an urban-management seal, unlawfully designated the factory buildings as illegal construction and issued an unlawful penalty decision, attempting by these means to evade resettlement and compensation and rob and plunder the complainant’s property.

(1) Forging the seal of the Wuxi Urban Management Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau to produce an Administrative Penalty Prior-Notice

Beginning in 2012, the plot where Zhendong Machinery Factory was located faced demolition, and the criminal suspects arranged for urban-management personnel to repeatedly come to the factory to provoke trouble and harass the complainant. On December 7, 2012, the Wuxi Urban Management Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau issued an Administrative Penalty Prior-Notice (Xi Cheng Zhi An Zi [2012] No. 602154) (Attachment 3), unlawfully determining that the factory buildings had been “constructed without obtaining a planning permit” and “recommending that the party concerned demolish them within a specified period.” In accordance with the requirements, Zhendong Machinery Factory immediately prepared a Statement and Defense and submitted it to the Wuxi Urban Management Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau, detailing the agreement, historical origin and legality of the factory buildings.

(2) Forging the seal of the Wuxi Urban Management Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau to produce an Administrative Penalty Decision

On June 14, 2013, the criminal suspects forged the seal of the Wuxi Urban Management Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau and issued the Administrative Penalty Decision (Xi Xin Cheng Zhi An Zi [2012] No. 602154) (see Attachment 4), deliberately distorting historical facts, abusing the law, unlawfully designating the factory buildings as illegal structures and deciding that they must be demolished within a specified period. On June 26, 2013, Zhendong Machinery Factory prepared a Complaint and submitted it to the Wuxi Xincheng Law Enforcement Brigade. The Law Enforcement Brigade stated that it had not issued the administrative penalty decision and asked the complainant to inquire with the entity shown by the seal on the penalty decision, adding that it had been produced by the Jiangxi Subdistrict urban-management authorities.

(3) The Wuxi Urban Management Administrative Law Enforcement Detachment confirmed that it had not produced this case

On April 17, 2015, when the complainant went to the Wuxi Urban Management Administrative Law Enforcement Detachment to raise objections to the Administrative Penalty Decision Xi Xin Cheng Zhi An Zi [2012] No. 602154 issued in its name, staff of the unit clearly told her, “This case is not with our unit; our unit did not issue the penalty decision.” Two staff members (Xu Jiaqing and Zhu Xiaodong) also handwritten materials certifying that the case had not been produced by their unit (see Attachment 5).

III. In order to rob and plunder the complainant’s lawful factory buildings and land, the criminal suspects stopped at nothing. While hiring criminal forces to harass, intimidate, threaten and insult the complainant’s entire family and using urban management, industry and commerce, taxation, environmental protection and other departments to repeatedly find fault at the complainant’s premises, they also cut off water, electricity and road access to the factory buildings.

Because the complainant’s family refused to accept the criminal suspects’ unlawful conduct and firmly refused to demolish the factory buildings themselves—because these buildings were the result of the entire family’s painstaking efforts and their sole means of supporting the family—the criminal suspects have now used gang-related methods in an attempt to force the complainant to surrender her lawful property, causing the entire family immense distress.

To carry out the robbery and force the complainant to stop work and demolish the factory buildings, the criminal suspects instructed Yang Jiannan from the subdistrict judicial office (a gang-related person) to repeatedly force his way into the factory, provoke, agitate, intimidate and threaten Zhang Jianzhong, and threaten to kill the complainant’s grandson. Hua Jinsheng of the subdistrict Demolition Office repeatedly forced his way into the factory, threatening to seize the factory buildings and property and kill the complainant’s entire family. Li Yun, secretary of the Qianjin Village Committee, also instructed Zhou Jinwei, a person who had been sentenced three times, to repeatedly force his way into the factory buildings and residence and threaten to kill the complainant’s grandson and granddaughter, causing enormous psychological pressure to the complainant’s family. The complainant called the police repeatedly, but this resulted in “armed special police” storming into the factory, shouting at the caller and threatening to shoot the complainant’s entire family and the workers, openly shielding the gang-related elements.

Between 8 p.m. on September 30, 2014, and 3:30 a.m. on October 1, the criminal suspects instructed personnel to cut the factory’s tap-water inlet pipe. At about 9 p.m. on October 8, the criminal suspects again instructed personnel to dump more than 30 tons of construction waste from a dump truck at the factory’s main entrance, including inside the gate, blocking the road into and out of the factory and attempting to obstruct and interfere with its normal production and operations. There were eyewitnesses who testified on my behalf. Zhang Jianzhong reported the matter to the police on October 10 and submitted a Report Letter, but the police ignored it. From the beginning of the demolition, the criminal suspects frequently cut off electricity to the complainant’s factory, seriously disrupting its normal production and operations.

IV. The criminal suspects carried out a violent gang-related “demolition of illegal structures”: organizing and instructing gang-related personnel to use gang-related violence, first kidnapping and unlawfully detaining the complainant and her husband, then completely robbing and stealing all the equipment and materials in the complainant’s factory, and finally destroying the complainant’s lawful factory buildings. The kidnapping and unlawful detention caused the complainant and her husband to suffer serious illnesses.

(1) The criminal suspects organized gang-related personnel to break open the factory gate and rush inside to kidnap the complainant and her husband

At 5 a.m. on November 27, 2014, while the complainant was cleaning the factory grounds and preparing to begin work, gang-related personnel led by Chen Yanrong, along with gang-related personnel disguised as security guards, smashed open the factory gate and rushed into the premises. They used violence to restrain the complainant as she prepared to call the police and seized her phone. The complainant cried for help. Her husband, Zhang Jianzhong, who was sleeping in the office area, awoke from his dream and rushed out wearing only his underwear. He found that the office door lock had been smashed open, and the criminal-society personnel who had rushed in had forced Zhang Jianzhong to the ground and restrained him. The complainant and her husband were then kidnapped and forcibly confined in a vehicle that had been parked outside in advance.

During the gang-related personnel’s violent restraint of the complainant, she said, “I know you!” The assailant immediately lifted the complainant’s shirt and wrapped it around her head to cover her eyes, leaving her entire upper body exposed. The complainant suffered extreme shock and desperately shouted, “Help!” but the assailant ignored her. Inside the vehicle, Zhang Jianzhong heard the complainant suddenly fall silent and, fearing that something had happened, rushed over to help remove the clothing covering her head. The gang-related personnel restrained and pinned him down so that he could not move. The complainant’s husband asked them to take her to the hospital, but they arrogantly shouted: “We’re taking you to hell!”

(2) The criminal suspects unlawfully detained the complainant and her husband

After violently kidnapping the complainant and her husband, the criminal suspects took them to the subdistrict judicial office and detained them separately in two rooms. Inside the rooms, the gang-related personnel kept the couple under strict control, not allowing them to walk around or urinate, causing the complainant to wet her pants. They were not taken home until about 2 a.m. on November 28.

(3) The kidnapping and unlawful detention caused the complainant and her husband to suffer serious illnesses

The complainant wore urine-soaked pants for more than 20 hours in a cold room, causing toxic rashes and wet blisters to develop on both legs and the lower part of her body.

More seriously, after the complainant suddenly suffered the assault of gang-related violence and the shock of being forcibly exposed from the waist up, her heart suddenly became ill and stopped beating. Her life was in danger, and she survived several emergency resuscitations. After several consecutive years of treatment, she still suffers from serious heart disease and urinary incontinence. Even slight stimulation causes her heartbeat to slow, leaving her entire body weak and paralyzed and requiring emergency treatment. Her husband, Zhang Jianzhong, was detained for a long time in a cold room wearing only a vest and shorts. Exposure to the cold caused inflammation in his lungs, which developed into emphysema that persists to this day.

(4) The criminal suspects first looted all the complainant’s property inside the factory and then destroyed and leveled the factory buildings

While the complainant and her husband were kidnapped to the subdistrict judicial office and unlawfully detained, the criminal suspects first completely looted all property inside the complainant’s factory, including production equipment, raw materials and finished products, office supplies and other items. They then instructed gang-related personnel to destroy and level the complainant’s 1,200-square-meter factory buildings. To this day, 12 years later, they have neither returned the property nor provided resettlement, compensation or damages!

The complainant has some surveillance footage as evidence and will provide it during the investigation.

When the criminal suspects used gang-related violence to destroy the complainant’s lawful factory buildings, three people called the police: Zhang Xiaochun (identity card number 320211198503262514), Zhang Xiaoyun (identity card number 320211198012272523), and Zhang Heqin (identity card number 320211194902012526).

V. The criminal suspects’ use of gang-related violence to destroy the complainant’s lawful property and rob her property constitutes suspected criminal conduct.

The criminal suspects are suspected of multiple offenses, as detailed below:

1. Suspected crimes of forging official documents and seals of state organs (two offenses): In order to rob, plunder and seize the complainant’s large amount of lawful property, and to attempt to designate her lawful factory buildings as illegal structures and demolish them in order to evade resettlement and compensation, they actually forged the seal of the Wuxi Urban Management Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau and produced a penalty prior-notice and penalty decision. The testimony of staff of the Wuxi Urban Management Administrative Law Enforcement Detachment, as well as the Administrative Penalty Prior-Notice and Administrative Penalty Decision, constitute conclusive evidence.

2. Illegally designating the complainant’s factory buildings as illegal construction;

On January 1, 2001, the complainant signed a Land Paid-Use Agreement with the Qianjin Village Committee of Nanzhan Town, Wuxi Suburban District, obtained land-use rights for 30 years, and was permitted to rebuild factory buildings at the former site of the old premises of the former collective enterprise beside the Qianjin Cultural Supplies Factory. Ownership of the rebuilt factory buildings belonged to the complainant.

This conduct was governed by the Regulations on the Administration of Planning and Construction of Villages and Market Towns (1993) and the Land Administration Law (1998 version). At the time, as long as the village and town agreed, rebuilding at the former site of original construction land belonging to the village collective did not require a rural construction planning permit. At the time, the agreement between the complainant and the Village Committee was sufficient for the rebuilding, and the relevant procedures were handled by the Village Committee.

Although Article 32 of the Urban Planning Law provided that “for the construction, expansion or renovation of buildings, structures, roads, pipelines and other engineering facilities within an urban planning area, an application must be submitted to the competent administrative department of urban planning with the relevant approval documents, and a construction-project planning permit shall be issued; construction may begin only after the planning permit has been obtained,” the area where the complainant was located was a rural village within an urban planning area and the former site of a village collective enterprise. In 2001, it was not urbanized, was not a contiguous built-up area, and was a rural area (a non-built-up area within the planning area), so Article 32 of the Urban Planning Law did not apply.

The Urban and Rural Planning Law implemented in 2008 was the law that first required a “rural construction planning permit.” Under the principle that “laws do not apply retroactively,” the 2008 Urban and Rural Planning Law cannot be used to assess conduct dating from 2001.

3. Suspected crimes of abuse of power and intentional destruction of property (two offenses): Without following statutory procedures and using gang-related violence, the suspects destroyed and leveled the complainant’s lawful factory buildings, causing her enormous property losses;

 4. Suspected crimes of robbery and theft (two offenses): After kidnapping and unlawfully detaining the complainant and her husband, the criminal suspects extensively robbed large amounts of property from the complainant’s factory. At the same time, they stole large amounts of property inside the factory, leaving all of the factory’s property completely looted;

5. Suspected crime of unlawful detention: The complainant and her husband were kidnapped from the factory into a vehicle and then taken to the subdistrict judicial office, where they were unlawfully detained for approximately 21 hours. During that time, they were not allowed to leave the room or walk around, and were not even allowed to urinate, completely depriving them of their personal freedom.

6. Suspected crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble: From before the demolition until now (after the demolition), the criminal suspects and the gang-related persons they gathered have continued to come to the complainant’s home to harass, intimidate, threaten and insult the complainant and her husband, attempting to force them to abandon their lawful rights and interests. Their acts of cutting off water and electricity and blocking roads all constitute legally defined criminal acts of picking quarrels and provoking trouble;

7. Suspected crime of unlawful intrusion into a residence: Before the demolition, the criminal suspects and the gang-related persons they gathered and hired arbitrarily entered the complainant’s factory; after the demolition, they arbitrarily entered the residence of the complainant and her husband;

8. Suspected crime of extortion: Since the demolition began, in addition to personally intimidating, threatening and insulting the complainant and her husband at their home, the criminal suspects have hired criminal forces to carry out the above acts. They have also used industry and commerce, taxation, urban management, environmental protection and public-security departments to find fault and shield gang-related criminal conduct. Their purpose was to force the complainant and her husband to abandon their rights and interests in order to obtain huge amounts of property, constituting the crime of extortion;

9. Suspected crime of intentional injury: The criminal suspects hired gang-related personnel to beat the complainant repeatedly, both before and after the demolition, causing her enormous physical and psychological trauma.

10. Crime of organizing and leading an organization with the nature of a criminal syndicate: The criminal suspects and the socially idle persons they hired formed an organized and led group with a clear division of labor. Under the organization and leadership of the criminal suspects, the group committed the above illegal and criminal acts over a long period, robbing and stealing all of the complainant’s lawful property. Afterwards, to prevent the complainant from reporting and exposing the conduct and pursuing her rights in accordance with the law, the criminal suspects continued to hire repeatedly released prisoners to come to her home to intimidate, threaten, harass and cause trouble. The characteristics of their conduct fully meet the constituent elements of the crime of organizing and leading an organization with the nature of a criminal syndicate.

VI. After the complainant reported the matter and pursued her rights, the criminal suspects distorted and fabricated facts in false reports, falsified information and concealed the truth from higher authorities while deceiving those below them; relevant functional departments shielded and tolerated the criminal suspects’ illegal and criminal conduct.

After their lawful factory buildings and property were destroyed and robbed, the complainant and her husband repeatedly reported the situation to the Village Committee, township government, district government and municipal government. They repeatedly promised to resolve the matter but have continued to fob them off and pass responsibility to others to this day. Even worse, Lu Jianjun, director of the Jiangxi Subdistrict petition office, repeatedly fabricated facts in reports to higher authorities, claiming that the complainant’s demands had “been resolved,” creating false accounts, false materials and false reports, falsifying information and concealing the truth from higher authorities while deceiving those below, in an attempt to conceal the matter from everyone and oppress the complainant and her husband. What an outrageous course of conduct!

The complainant and her husband also reported their experience by mail to relevant departments in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province and Beijing, but none took the matter seriously or resolved it. In this way, they have been deceived, fobbed off and delayed for 12 years!

(1) The Xinwu District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision shielded the criminal suspects’ illegal and criminal conduct

On November 10, 2020, the Xinwu District People’s Procuratorate of Wuxi City accepted the complainant’s report. After reviewing it, the procuratorate transferred the report materials to the Xinwu District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision for handling and gave the complainant a Reply Letter to a Letter from the Public (see Attachment 6). However, the Xinwu District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision has still conducted no investigation or handling and has openly shielded the criminal suspects’ illegal and criminal conduct.

(2) The Xinwu District Public Security authorities shielded the criminal suspects’ illegal and criminal conduct

In September 2025, the complainant reported the above circumstances to the Central Fifth Inspection Group. On October 9, the Xinwu Branch of the Wuxi Municipal Public Security Bureau gave the complainant a Notice on Handling under Special Procedures (see Attachment 7), stating that it had “forwarded [the matter] to Nanzhan Police Station for handling according to legal procedures.” On November 20 of the same year, the Xinwu Branch again gave the complainant a Reply Regarding the Issues Reported by Gu Lingdi (see Attachment 8), stating that “the public-security authorities have made a decision not to docket the case in accordance with the law and regulations.” However, no one investigated the matter with the complainant, nor did they lawfully serve her with a Notice of Non-Docketing, depriving her of her statutory right to seek relief against the non-docketing decision and openly acting as a protective umbrella for the criminal suspects’ illegal and criminal conduct.

(3) The criminal suspects continued to abuse their power and violate the law, issuing an unlawful response without the slightest scruple

On December 5, 2025, after the complainant reported the circumstances to the Central Fifth Inspection Group, Jiangxi Subdistrict gave her a Notice on Performing Duties in Accordance with the Law (see Attachment 9), brazenly fabricating facts while also acknowledging several illegal and criminal facts.

The complainant respectfully asks leaders at all levels, despite their busy schedules, to pay attention to the organized-crime and gang-related situation in Wuxi, order Wuxi’s relevant functional departments to conduct an objective and impartial investigation of the matters reported, investigate and handle the criminal suspects’ illegal and criminal conduct, and, in accordance with the law and regulations, provide lawful, appropriate and reasonable resettlement, compensation and damages for the complainant couple’s factory buildings and property losses, thereby upholding the dignity of the law and social fairness and justice.

Because the complainant and her husband suffered violent gang-related demolition, their enormous property was robbed, their bodies suffered trauma and abuse, and they have endured severe mental anguish, they live every day in grief and pain!

After 12 years of pursuing their rights, their cries to heaven have gone unanswered and their pleas to the earth have gone unheeded; they have nowhere to seek redress and have endured torment!

Under the Communist Party’s rule, is there really nowhere to reason and seek justice?

Respectfully submitted

Yours respectfully!

Complainant:

Date of report: 2026    Month    Day

Attachments:

1. One copy of the Business License and Organization Code Certificate;

2. One copy of the Land Paid-Use Agreement;

3. One copy of the Administrative Penalty Prior-Notice;

4. One copy of the Administrative Penalty Decision (urban management);

5. One copy of the handwritten materials by municipal urban-management staff Xu Jiaqing and Zhu Xiaodong;

6. One copy of the Xinwu District People’s Procuratorate’s Reply Letter to a Letter from the Public;

7. One copy of the Xinwu Branch’s Notice on Handling under Special Procedures;

8. One copy of the Xinwu Branch’s Reply Regarding the Issues Reported by Gu Lingdi;

9. One copy of Jiangxi Subdistrict’s Notice on Performing Duties in Accordance with the Law.

Attachment 1: Business License and Organization Code Certificate

Attachment 2: Land Paid-Use Agreement

Attachment 3: Administrative Penalty Prior-Notice (urban management)

Attachment 4: Administrative Penalty Decision (urban management)

Attachment 5: Copies of the handwritten materials by Xu Jiaqing and Zhu Xiaodong

Attachment 6: Xinwu District People’s Procuratorate’s Reply Letter to a Letter from the Public

Attachment 7: Xinwu Branch’s Notice on Handling under Special Procedures

Attachment 8: Xinwu Branch’s Reply Regarding the Issues Reported by Gu Lingdi

Attachment 9: Jiangxi Subdistrict’s Notice on Performing Duties in Accordance with the Law