Zhao Guangyun lived in Shunyi Residential Quarters, Jinan City, Shandong Province. In 1996, he started to practice Falun Gong, together with his wife. According to a publicity brochure containing the health reports of Falun Gong practitioners distributed by the local Falun Gong organization, Zhao originally suffered from severe anemia, which made him too weak to be able to walk 40-50 meters at a time, but after three months of practicing Falun Gong, he gained 10 kg and recovered his appetite and could walk as any normal man. The organization claimed that this could only be achieved by Falun Gong practitioners. This report was published in April 1999, but Zhao died in May of the same year.
Zhao's wife Zhuang Xiangfeng disclosed the truth of the affair: Zhao had not recovered from his illness when he was asked to write the report about his health, but the Falun Gong organization ordered him to claim to be recovered and to take the opportunity to dispel karma. As a result, instead of dispelling karma, he lost his life.
How did this deceitful report come into being? According to the chief editor of the material and concurrently deputy chief of the Zhongqu Falun Gong instruction Center in Jinan, before Li Hongzhi went to Jinan to preach, he ordered each member in Jinan to write a report of personal experience of practicing Falun Gong, and said that the better the report was written, the more completely karma would be dispelled. Consequently, 2,000 copies were printed for each of the 90 reports concocted.
