Niu Qun went to Mengcheng, Anhui to serve as deputy county magistrate. After seeing the local poverty, he raised funds to build schools and promoted education, rehabilitation, and employment assistance.
Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto published The Mystery of Capital in 2000, pointing out that the poor in developing countries hold large amounts of dead capital that lacks legal property rights.
Ren Zhiqiang wrote a letter criticizing SOHO Modern City; the related criticisms, Pan Shiyi's response, and outside debate were later compiled into "Critique of SOHO Modern City."
After the dot-com bubble burst, Cisco's stock price fell from $79 to $9.5 within two years, a cumulative decline of about 88%.
Hu Liren said that during a dinner with leaders of Shanghai Qingpu Prison, he asked whether a large number of Falun Gong practitioners had been arrested and had their organs harvested while in prison, and the other party retorted, "How do you know?" before admitting that this had happened.
While staying in Flushing, New York, Hu Liren met a Shanghai couple who practice Falun Gong. The wife said she had served two years in a Shanghai women's prison, where every day she was handcuffed behind her back and hung from a railing for hours, only being lowered during meals, which damaged the nerves in her hands and left her disabled. After her release, the couple hand out leaflets exposing the Chinese Communist Party every day in front of the Flushing post office.
A male Falun Gong practitioner from Shanghai whom Hu Liren met in Flushing, New York, said that he was sentenced and imprisoned in a Shanghai prison for practicing Falun Gong. While in prison, he was pinned to the ground with a chair pressed against him, and prison guards repeatedly shocked his head with multiple electric batons until he lost consciousness, leaving a large swelling on his head.