Secret Document Reveals Chinese Regime's Interference with NTDTV New Year Show
By Wang Fang/Epoch Times Staff
Mar 04, 2007

The Epoch Times has obtained a secret document from China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television that reveals Chinese communist party's (CCPs) attempt to interfere with New Tang Dynasty TV's Chinese New Year shows.
The document, translated at the bottom of this article, instructs the NTDTV New Year Show to be destroyed by "any and all means," and if not possible, to "contain them and minimize their impact."
It is believed that this instruction was not only passed down to the state administration and its affiliated organizations, since the Chinese consulates and embassies in various countries have also actively participated in suppressing and sabotaging NTDTV shows.
This document offers an explanation for the various bizarre incidents which happened before and after the NTDTV Gala in Chicago. The CCP directly gave the order to suppress and sabotage NTDTV's Global Gala in Chicago, which is the CCP's overseas spy headquarters.
The NTDTV Chinese New Year Spectacular was hosted by the Chicago Sound of Hope Radio this year. The two performances in Chicago were the final shows in North America. Chicago only has 70,000 to 80,000 Chinese in population, yet the CCP has sent three Mainland Chinese performance groups to Chicago within three months around the time of the Chinese New Year this year.

Including the annual New Year celebration activities organized by the local Taiwan communities and the local Mainland China communities, there are a total of six Chinese New Year celebration shows this year. On January 6, China sent the Sichuan Province Performance Group and the Shaolin Temple Performance Group to Chicago.
The host, China Star Media Corporation, which is sometimes referred to as "The Junior Remin Daily" due to its close ties to the Chinese communist regime, claimed on its website that "In order to introduce Chinese culture to the mainstream society in Chicago, China Star Media Corporation has overcome many obstacles and organized in a short period of two months, The First World Peace New Year's Gala in Chicago.
"We successfully held the performance on January 6 at the same theater where the Chinese New Year Spectacular hosted by NTDTV will be held. We have efficiently obstructed this Falun Gong show which is scheduled to perform in March.
"Also, on January 1, we started the China Star English Channel, which is a milestone of China Star Media Corporation and a great improvement for China Star Media Corporation to proactively undertake the tasks concerning propaganda for China."
On February 17, The Beijing Overseas Chinese Art Group sent a group of several dozen people to Chicago to perform.

The 2007 Chicago-Shanghai Chinese Lantern Festival Performance sponsored by the Shanghai City government, Shanghai People's Congress Standing Committee and Shanghai Wenguang Corporation, was scheduled to be held on March 3, the same day as the Chinese New Year Spectacular produced by NTDTV.
The Wenguang Corporation organized a large group of eighty performers, including famous stars from Taiwan and Mainland China. However, three days before the show, the host held a press conference to cancel the show. According to the host, the show was cancelled because the performers were unable to obtain visas to enter the U.S.
The U.S. National Broadcasting Company (NBC) reported via Channel Five on the CCP's harassment of NTDTV's Global Chinese New Year Spectacular. The report says, "There were constant phone calls from China trying to occupy the ticket hotlines of the gala. The Chinese consulate also kept calling the sponsors of the gala, including NBC, asking them not to sponsor the gala.
According to the Aboluowang website (www.aboluowang.com), NTDTV's New Year's Gala started in 2004. The first gala held in 2004 had performances in five cities, with 10,000 tickets sold. Today, the show has expanded to 26 cities with 75 performances around the world, and 200,000 tickets sold. It is a very strong challenge to the monopoly of "The Spring Festival Show" sponsored by the Chinese communist regime.
The following is the text of the highly classified document.
To: The Broadcasting and Television Bureaus in each province, autonomous region, and directly administered municipality (Signature and stamping required upon receipt)
Classification: Highly confidential; Classification No.: XXXXX
Re: The incident of "Falun Gong" Plotting for the "Inaugural Global Chinese New Year Gala"
The Broadcasting and Television Bureaus in each province, autonomous region, and directly administered municipality:
It was learned that the "NTDTV Station" by "Falun Gong" is expediting the recording of the "Inaugural Global Chinese New Year Gala" and is planning to broadcast it on January 18, 19 and 21 next year. The gala lasted about 100 minutes, and will be broadcasted globally via three satellites leased by the "Washington DC Chinese Television Station" (with Taiwanese background), with one of the satellites, NSS-6, covering regions of Asia. The "Falun Gong" organization is also plotting to propagate the gala through DVDs and radio broadcasting networks. Li Hongzhi is planning to show up on the site of the gala to make a live speech. The "Falun Gong" organization is also planning to invite VIPs of American government, diplomats to the U.N. from various countries, Chinese celebrities, and people from the entertainment and athletic circles to attend the gala, in an attempt to expand the international impact of "Falun Gong" through the gala and interfere with the broadcasting of the CCTV's Spring Festival Show. Currently, "Falun Gong" is, in the name of "Chinese Television" or "NTDTV Station", "interviewing celebrities" in various places and will use the interviews in their gala. The intended targets of their interviews are the unknowing members of the delegations from China.
For the aforementioned activities, the leadership of the Central Government has ordered that they be destroyed by any and all means. If the situation is such that it is not possible to destroy them, we need to contain them and minimize their impact, so as to prevent them from interfering with our Spring Festival Show.
The Broadcasting and Television Bureaus at various levels are required to implement the order from the central government seriously and raise their guard. It is prohibited for the personnel of your unit to be interviewed; it is prohibited for our delegates visiting overseas countries to watch any related shows; it is prohibited to spread the "Falun Gong" programs. In the meantime, our overseas propaganda needs to be intensified in order to eliminate the impact caused by these activities of "Falun Gong." Any important developments are required to be reported to the Central Government in a timely manner.
The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television December 16, 2003



