Karma Has Arrived! Holger Chen's Gym Goes Belly-Up as He Turns Pro-CCP, Lashing Out at Shen Poyang for Stealing His Views, Planning to Flee to Xiamen? Running Into China's 30-Year Social Insurance Back-Check, Xi Jinping Hits the Accelerator on All Fronts

This video explores the phenomenon of Taiwanese influencer Holger Chen (Guanchang) weeping over the closure of his Kaohsiung gym and turning to bootlick the CCP, while further analyzing China's recent fiscal harvesting policies such as retroactive social security audits spanning 30 years and mandatory social security enrollment for flexibly employed workers. The program points out that due to an aging population, a plummeting birthrate, and tight fiscal conditions, China is launching an all-out effort to claw back social security contributions and strictly scrutinize corporate compliance, placing a heavy burden on grassroots citizens and small-to-medium enterprises; through this, it mocks Guanchang by pointing out that if he attempts to develop a fitness business in China, he will also face exorbitant costs and harsh scrutiny.

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A few days ago everyone was following Yang Liu, so let's check in on Guanchang. Just a few days ago he was crying his eyes out, ordered to pay over 330,000 in damages in the first trial. In his soon-to-be-closed Kaohsiung gym, did he weep inside, or did he weep nearby? But then he turned around and told everyone he was being persecuted, and then Business Weekly blew the whistle—clearly most of the problems were your own; clearly plenty of people told you the strategy shouldn't go that way, it was just your brain that had issues. Then acting like a chameleon, in the end suffering massive losses, still weeping over there, dead-set against repenting, just spoiled rotten by you all, that's the phrase. I myself also go to another gym, here comes another fucking idiot, I have never turned against Taiwanese people. Who knows how long his Sanchong and Linkou branches will hold out? Amitabha. Yet the moment he turned around, he started livestreaming again, bootlicking the CCP again, bootlicking the CCP a bit and then saying:

Why am I bootlicking the CCP? Why do you say I'm bootlicking the CCP? I've never bootlicked the CCP, yet he's bootlicking the CCP again. During my chats people always ask, why are you bootlicking the CCP? Because my idol is Shen Pao-yang, because Shen Pao-yang's father bootlicked the CCP, which is why he could raise such an outstanding kid. Is Guanchang bootlicking the CCP? Your mother's dick! I didn't bootlick the CCP, what the hell is wrong with you? How many souls swap into your body every single day? Ah, and then what else did he say? That Chinese people earning 3,000 to 5,000 a month are in the minority, and that those making minimum wage aren't that many either. Because I run a company over there myself, none of my employees make a fucking 3,000 RMB. According to reports from Chinese research institutions and enterprise employment bodies, the hard data slaps him in the face, showing that nearly 90% of Chinese people earn less than 5,000 a month. Even though Baidu's AI loves the Party and the country, Baidu's AI stated that while it might not be as high as 90%, as long as you make 5,000 a month in China, you've surpassed 80% of the population.

Wow, Guanchang, could it be that everyone around you belongs to the powerful elite and imperial relatives like Peng Liyuan, so you don't interact with ordinary folks? Do you really think 3,000 to 5,000 is just 5%? But Ah-Guan, don't be sad, because something even sadder is coming. I beg you, since you also said you want to hurry up and roll out your comprehensive business in China. I beg you to relax a bit, because Taiwan is tough, but right now China can't even hit the brakes—hitting the brakes until they snap completely. In China, hey, fitness businesses, e-commerce businesses, whatever business you can do, do whatever you can. Wow, what will e-commerce look for? Can you soothe a stomach? Can you nourish a stomach? An order came down from Beijing today that shook the whole of China.

At the exact same moment that the curator's Kaohsiung branch was preparing to close, the Chinese government was also looking for people. But the person they are looking for here, you see, isn't a customer, but all Chinese citizens. And what is this money? It is your social security. We Taiwanese can just understand it as a type of labor insurance. On October 10, a CCP official named Li Zhong personally said something that made Chinese people have a mental breakdown, flying right into a total breakdown, haha. He mentioned that right now there are still many people who haven't joined social security or labor insurance, haha. Where on earth are these people? We must find all of them.

And the method he talked about is so terrifying upon deep thought that it made many Chinese people have a mental breakdown! What did he say about using data to find people, huh? Big data monitoring and AI; before you know it, whatever Xiaomi security camera you bought at home, whatever Xiaomi device is watching you, hey, your daily living habits, you definitely have a side hustle, you definitely just delivered a food delivery order, you definitely just worked one day this month, you have to pay—you have to pay the minimum, which is over 1,000. Today, if you say you are unemployed or semi-unemployed, the flexible employment population also counts, you must forcibly pay something similar to the concept of Taiwan's labor insurance, and furthermore.

They are even going to demand retroactive payments! Retroactively auditing social security for ten, twenty, or thirty years! I said last year, this is a whole set of combined punches being thrown, peeled layer by layer, peeling faster and faster. You all shouldn't think that, uh, something like the September 15 limit, and then starting October 1, they are going to audit some rich people's ghost overseas insurance policies—it's not just targeting the rich or the middle class. The wool of you Little Pinks, even if it's just a single strand, when the wool of 1.4 billion people is accumulated, it amounts to 1.4 billion. So I suddenly feel, Curator, haha, you should just give up all your businesses in Taiwan and go do business in the CCP's country, that's the most suitable, make big money. So that Curator is just a coward, a pro-CCP sycophant, someone who especially loves making red money. OK, I admit I just love red money. Back when the Curator ran a gym, the most painful thing was that there weren't enough members, haha, because his members were all Qingniao, and these Blue-White supporters don't really come to support him either, I don't know why, haha.

It is very regrettable that today I have walked to this point. But I told myself, today everyone knows me as the crybaby Curator, but today I cannot shed tears. The Chinese government is having the exact same thing happen right now too. The social security members are not enough, haha! Chinese people will all have a mental breakdown, so Curator, what are you afraid of? Didn't you say your market over there is huge? How come you only dare to do online business? Oh, could it be that you think this is more convenient? I'm guessing, because I've heard of such cases, but I believe you aren't like that, oh. Some people, haha, acting on behalf of the local lower-middle classes over there to create families, take the money Xi Jinping wants to harvest from them, and then produce some cash flow to bring goods, stream, and tip. For example, hey, I'm going to sell this bottle of cola right now, and actually only ten Little Pinks bought it, but my shipment is over ten million units, and the remaining nine-plus million is just online data of cash flow sales, which can reasonably tell the Beijing central authorities, Look, you see, so the money I gave to this person is very reasonable because I sold ten million pieces, oh.

But in reality, are there really this many people buying? So of course I believe Curator you wouldn't do that, roar, but I heard the CCP has this kind of gameplay, so you can break this kind of doubt, which is that all over China, in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Guizhou—Guizhou is the most crucial place—you should open gyms everywhere, let the small Xiaomi plug full of five-star red flags, and you will make big money. And according to the KPI set by the CCP, the Curator will surely wail with grief and be moved to tears of gratitude, haha. Regarding basic pension insurance, the future participation rate has already been grasped by the CCP, to be controlled at over 95%. And there are 255 million people with unemployment insurance, oh. Official CCP figures are very good at using this kind of rhetoric and data to beautify, to divert, and then to trick those pro-CCP Taiwanese and Taiwanese who are completely oblivious to the CCP. So I couldn't be bothered to translate how Beijing modified the statistical method for this youth unemployment rate anymore. And now the CCP even specifically names, saying that the flexible employment population includes delivery drivers, ah, taxi drivers, Uber-style ones, haha, as well as migrant workers and those small Xiaomi people in Guizhou. To put it more warmly, haha, it's called you should participate in insurance wherever you are supposed to.

To put it in the business terminology of Gym Chief Holger Chen's gyms, that whole industry would say: hurry up and get everyone who hasn't registered a membership signed up; anyone just walking past must sign up for a membership. As long as you walk past my store, you must get a membership for me, because if you walk past, you are Chinese, and if you are Chinese, you have to get my membership. This is pretty much what the CCP means. I don't know if it will turn into this in the future, but I believe the CCP has immense leeway for flexible interpretation. Suppose you've entered society and should have been working for ten years, and during that time you worked intermittently for seven years, and for three years, because of taking time off, because of unemployment, because of switching jobs, anyway taking a rest, you didn't work for three years—normally, you wouldn't need to pay into social security and labor insurance, right? Under the CCP's flexible elasticity, they might tell you in the future to make up for those three years, and slap on fines as well. Even if, during those three years, you took on a single gig or handled a private deal for a very small amount, they would still calculate your labor and health insurance according to the minimum standard, and calculate the fine. So someone calculated that no matter how much you earn, at the absolute minimum you must pay 1,300 to 1,600 RMB in social security to the CCP government, officially implemented on November 1.

In other words, suppose you are a "flexibly employed" unemployed person today. You might work two days a month, and you make a few hundred RMB, between 100 and 500. But you have a work record; please pay up to 1,300 according to the minimum social security standard, so you have to pay out of your own pocket—you have to subsidize their social security out of pocket. So the meaning of this is forcing you to ramp up your work hours to earn over 1,300 to 1,600. So are you going to do it or not? Are you going to pay out of pocket? This is forcing everyone into employment. Look at Xi Jinping's move here, and Chinese netizens reacted with a massive meltdown. Some said, "I want to pay, but the company won't let me"; others said, "I want to buy insurance, but the company won't buy it." But many outside comments were deleted in droves. This topic—paying social security—was momentarily pushed into Weibo's top three trending searches, and instantly taken down. Some asked: I don't even have a job and have no income, what am I supposed to pay with?

Let's take another look at what concepts are related to this response from the Gym Chief. Take a look, everyone. Truly, our company currently has nearly 30 to 40 people. And if you have specialized skills, like specialized AI or whatever, that's 8,000 to 10,000 RMB; seriously, don't look down your nose at people, truly. Come on, setting these aside for a moment, for someone who understands high-tech algorithms, the Gym Chief only dares to pay around 40,000 New Taiwan Dollars. Fine, setting that aside for now, just talking about 8,000 to 10,000 RMB, do you know? After deducting the local social security, what the employee actually takes home is merely just over 6,000 to 8,000 RMB. Moreover, Gym Chief, if you really complied with the laws laid down by CCP Beijing, and covered all the legal insurance you are supposed to pay for employees, then you should know that when you hire an employee at 10,000 RMB, the money you spend might be around 13,000 RMB, because your enterprise also has to bear their so-called "five insurances and one housing fund" or even "six insurances and one housing fund." If the Gym Chief comes out now, melting down and slapping his own face saying, "Oh, Ba Jiu is making up rumors, Ba Jiu is talking nonsense again," then does that mean you didn't actually pay in accordance with the requirements of CCP Central Committee Beijing? Hey, now that you know, Jinping, hurry up and ask the Beijing Discipline Inspection Commission and the Central Inspection Team to check whether his stores in Shenzhen and Xiamen are legal and compliant. Should you retroactively investigate back 30 years? Naturally, the Little Pinks are also having a total meltdown.

Kai Chuan said, the CCP, you might as well just confiscate all my bank cards. Why is it precisely now, suddenly in these past few months, that they have rolled out a massive harvesting of wealth across the board—from the bottom tier, the middle class, to the wealthy, and even overseas Chinese, right? Because the Chinese government is truly out of money; expenditures outstrip revenues. And China right now is only at the beginning of a bitter winter. We are looking at a terrifying statistic: in 2025, China's newborn population dropped to just 7.92 million. Yet the death count reached as high as 11.31 million—a direct net loss of over 3 million people in a single year. The population aged 60 and above reached 320 million, accounting for more than 23% of China's total population. Of course, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and many other countries face this exact same issue. But do not forget, China's massive demographic baseline means it will face the largest, most painful population aging and birthrate collapse in human history; it is the most severe. Recently, the Chinese internet has been buzzing about this largest retirement wave in history. They estimate that in the future, more than 60,000 Chinese people every day will face retirement or forced retirement. Once they retire, they have zero productivity, and there are no newcomers to replace them. Meanwhile, China's AI is in that pathetic state, right? Struggling for one-sixth of the US's computing power. So tell me, who will support these people in the future? China is entering a massive growth phase of retired population while newborn numbers are plunging. When both happen simultaneously, a catastrophic crisis hits the social security system: who will pay into it in the future? Meanwhile, our Taiwanese government keeps handing out money, handing out money, handing out money—distributing far more than the CCP ever could.

Business owners are truly brought to tears! Shenzhen's social security rates have gone up again, about to breach the 2,000 yuan threshold. Crucially, retroactive payments and shortfall reconciliations apply to the entire year: from July to December, the contribution base jumped to 5,521 yuan, meaning a monthly shortfall make-up of 179.04 yuan. Here is the kicker: if an employee resigned earlier this year, the company still has to make up these payments retroactively, and in many cases the business has to foot the entire bill. Running a business right now is simply agonizing, remarkably reminiscent of the late Ming dynasty. Look at this nauseating chart: it breaks down China's social welfare and insurance expenditures. There is one specific category that accounts for the lion's share—called 'administrative and public institution pensions.' In plain language, civil servants, bureaucrats. This single line item alone takes up 36%, while all the remaining ten items combined take up 64%. That 64% includes farmers, enterprises, regular everyday citizens. Small shopkeepers, bubble tea shop workers—all lumped together make up only 64%, whereas bureaucrats alone eat up over 30%. This is the exact same situation as the late Ming dynasty: sustaining endless redundant officials and imperial princes' descendants, a number that only grows, never shrinks. Officials multiply relentlessly, retired officials remain officials, and their lavish pensions are bundled into this calculation, even as China's net revenue after costs shrinks by the day.

I once heard from a Taiwanese businessman—actually, not just one, several told me—back in Jiang Zemin's era, say your company was supposed to pay 1 million RMB in taxes this year. If you worked your connections well with the local Discipline Inspection Commission or the tax bureau party secretary, slipped some benefits to the higher-ups—handing them 50,000 or 100,000 RMB—they would tell you, 'Oh, that 1 million corporate tax you were supposed to pay? Just declare whatever you like, pay 50,000 or 100,000, it's up to you.' So by spending 100,000 to 200,000 RMB, you settled a cost that originally should have been 1 million. And those corrupt officials funneled endless sums out of the country. Laundered to where? Laundered overseas, meaning the foreign exchange China earned from export orders was never redirected into domestic demand. Now Xi Jinping wants to claw that money back. Looking at it strictly from this angle, well, it might not seem entirely unjustified. Speaking of which, Guan Zhang, you need to listen closely, because this happened in Fujian, and your company is in Fujian too. Fujian recently announced the 2026 contribution bases for pension, unemployment, and other social insurance: raising the minimum from 4,570 to 4,579 RMB, and the ceiling to over 22,000 RMB. If you are a small business owner in Fujian, already struggling with terrible business this year, suddenly you get hit with: 'Sorry, you need to make up the shortfall for the past few months; our regulations are retroactive.' Don't assume the motherland was saving a National Day holiday surprise for your birthday—why on earth did this notice arrive right after the long weekend? Ha, so Guan Zhang, when the notice hits your Xiamen branch, please muster the exact same fiery spirit you use to blast the DPP, fire up your livestream, and verbally shred the CCP!

And what else is circulating on the Chinese internet recently? A saying goes like this: we just briefly mentioned the ten-year retrospective social security audit, and I want to clarify for the Chinese government that the central authorities did not have a policy or an action called the national ten-year social security retrospective audit. Because, you see, I found cases: a company in Beijing was asked to pay back social security from 2012, other companies were asked to pay back from the year 2000, and a public notice from a company in Xicheng District, Beijing, showed they were chasing social security back from 1991 to 1992. So, what is the internet rumor saying? That the ten-year social security retrospective audit is pure rumor, because they are actually auditing thirty years back! Then, on November 1, China introduced yet another new system that has left many Little Pinks in tears. What are they saying? Social security arrears will carry a maximum fine of three times the amount. And this social security arrearage, just like the premises I mentioned earlier, makes no sense at all. That brings us back to Guan Chang. Guan Chang's Kaohsiung gym burned five million in costs a month, and he was already crying to high heaven. If he really threw himself wholeheartedly into opening his fitness business in the Chinese market, I strongly suggest that next time, instead of just filming how pretty Shanghai is, whether the toilets have doors, or how fast the high-speed rail is, you should go open physical gyms until they explode, plant five-star red flags everywhere along the way, and then day after day, month after month, show your employee expenses, your square expenses, the members who truly joined you, how many real-person members came to your shop every day, how much money they spent on fitness, and your live-streaming business. Moreover, you've said yourself that you have a 1.4 billion people backing you up. Because of talking politics in Taiwan, you get targeted by the Bluebirds. But aren't you patriotic? Wouldn't 1.4 billion people pack your gym to bursting?

Of course, I know what excuse you'll find. You'll say Taiwan is my home, Taiwan is my root, even though we are all Chinese, I am a Taiwanese person, and I want to help Taiwanese people. But you know what? Your current situation is that you are targeted by the Bluebirds, you are targeted by the ocean currents, you are persecuted by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Shouldn't you change to a better environment, go to the mainland of the motherland to develop and strengthen yourself, train the muscles of your brain to be more complete, and then come back to change Taiwan in the direction you want? Wouldn't you think that would be much easier? Unless you are just fooling the Little Pinks after all! Come on, let's look at this video and see if Guan Chang has naturalized as a Chinese citizen yet? All people in Taiwan have naturalized as Chinese; the Republic of China is also Chinese! Look, now Guan Chang has turned back to the Republic of China faction. Hey, why don't you say these words on Douyin in China? People of the Republic of China are Chinese; Hubei people and Beijing people are all people of the Republic of China—are you lying every day? Guan Chang, what I told you to go handle was a CCP ID card. What does Li Dongxian hold as a gym owner? What do you hold? It is that simple, don't talk those answers that dodge the question like a winding river! No wonder you support him. I tell you, as long as you dare to publicly live-stream getting an ID card, your live-streaming traffic will definitely surpass Shen Boyang. Weren't you just jealous that his traffic is higher than yours? This video, and then the entire Threads platform has been going on for nearly a month, giving you full, big, big ocean currents, sucking up to Shen Boyang. In just a few short months, you went from a bear to a hero, and I am not convinced!

So I'll gift Guan Chang a very simple piece of business knowledge: a population of 1.4 billion does not equal 1.4 billion orders and gym memberships, otherwise if you just ran your business properly there, you completely missed the dividend era of making money in China! So I'm saying you're really bad at choosing. If you sincerely want to make money in China, regardless of whether you suck up to the Communists or not, shouldn't you have gone over back around the year 2000 to 2010? You should have gone after finishing 2015, right? What are you going there now for? Is that not right? Furthermore, a large population and the willingness to consume are two different things. A big market and high profits, plus high costs, are all different matters. Guan Chang himself should be very clear on this logic. It's not that Kaohsiung suddenly has no people left, it's not that Kaohsiung people have become poorer; it's because the Bluebirds persecuted you, so people don't want to go consume at your place anymore. Then why don't you go consume over there with the 1.4 billion people? Therefore, Guan Chang's situation is exactly identical to the current status quo in China! The government needs broader social coverage to supplement its fiscal revenue. At this point, a very awkward cycle emerges: the government says, "In order to protect you, I need you to join insurance." And the common people say, "I can't even make a living right now; my childhood dream was to eat instant noodles every day, and I didn't expect that after turning thirty, I really would be eating instant noodles every day!" And enterprises will say, "Where are my orders for this year? Help me find them first, and then ask me if I want to expand my social security payments."

In 2025, for those folks in rural Guizhou, Xiaowei, the lowest national standard for pensions across all of China is only 143 yuan. In 2026, out of sheer benevolence, it will be raised by 20 yuan. It's truly so high, so high that I'm practically flying. So for many low-income Chinese, it's not that they don't know retirement is important. What they are thinking is: I can't even afford rent today, yet you tell me to pay over 1,000 yuan under the minimum standard into social security, and then tell me this is protecting the 60-year-old me. But the problem is, what is the 30-year-old me supposed to eat right now? This is the real problem that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) should actually solve right now, right? And I think Holger Chen is also hilarious. What he worries about in Taiwan is how to find more members; he kept saying he wanted to dedicate himself fully to developing his fitness business in China, but right now I haven't seen a single gym open. How many years have you been filling out forms—over a year, or two years? The Chinese government is also currently worrying about how to find more members right now; the two of you share the same worry, so hurry up and merge together. Who told you that? I grew up on the mainland; you must be a fan of Ba Jiong, right? Physical brick-and-mortar stores are all about labor costs, utilities, and then rent becomes sheer torture.

Over the past decade or more, many of China's systems were built on continuous population growth, a large enough working population, low enough wages, rapid economic growth, property and local government fiscal revenues advancing triumphantly, and explosive dividend booms from American, European, and Japanese orders. Now, among these conditions, how many do you think are actually left? Most importantly, what Trump made Xi Jinping happy about was making Xi Jinping believe that the United States is truly so weak. So what will Xi Jinping do? He will pour more money into every field in China, because China is supposedly just inches away from surpassing the United States. Hey, invest another trillion, you're almost surpassing Elon Musk. Otherwise, wouldn't letting the CCP continue burning money on investments in every field lead straight into the comprehensive developmental doom seen in the Soviet Union and the late Ming Dynasty? As for Holger Chen, I genuinely wish you well. After your Kaohsiung branch closes, if you truly find the next business opportunity worth over a billion in China, I will be happy for you too. After all, you once said that if you couldn't make over a billion NTD or RMB within a year, what would happen to you when you step out the door? No wonder your Buddhist amulets don't sell well—because none of them work. So next time you livestream on the CCP's Douyin, I suggest you show your arm! We all want to see your arm, haha. If we don't cover up the tattoos, I won't even be able to start the stream. We want to see whether it's your entire left arm or your entire right arm—which tattoo is it? Haha, slapping Peng Liyuan's ass. That's the end of today's video. If you like "Fun TV", don't want to... here must cover Peng's hand, right? See you next time, bye.