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![](images/groups_photos/ZhangHongbaujpg.jpg) Zhang Hongbau
Zhong Gong
![](images/g_officialname.gif) Zhong Gong
![](images/g_foundersname.gif) Zhang Hongbao (1954?-2006)
![](images/g_foundingplace.gif) China, 1988
![](images/g_headquarters.gif) China
![](images/g_beliefs.gif) This is a Qi Gong group similar to the banned Falun Gong movement. (Qi Gong is a traditional form of Chinese traditional medicine and exercise postures.) Apparently a very large group, some estimates putting it in the millions, it was effectively shut down in 2000 by the Chinese government, and the leader, Zhang Hongbau, escaped to the US, but was killed in a car crash in Arizona on July 31st, 2006.
![](images/g_adherents.gif) 400,000
![](images/g_countries.gif) China
![](images/g_links.gif) www.world-chinese.com/Eng/9_31_2006_9_13.asp
www.beliefnet.com/story/21/story_2153_1.html
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