47-year-old Ms. Ma Liqin is a Falun Gong practitioner from Heilongjiang Province. She was beaten into a vegetative state at the Beishan No.2 Detention Centre in Qitaihe City in March 2002 by policeman Yin Zhongliang. Yin kicked her with leather shoes and knocked her head against the wall. Ma lost consciousness immediately. The police thought she was faking it and kept punching her in the face. At present she is still in a vegetative state. She eats only when fed, is incontinent, and her family needs to take care of her around the clock. Her pension is being used to pay her medical bills.

Ms. Song Zhezi, was sentenced to four years in prison in 2004. Her shop became bankrupt and her money in the bank was frozen. Ms. Song suffered a mental breakdown due to brainwashing and torture from the detention of more than three years in Hunan Province Women's Prison. Her daughter, Ms.Yuan Donglan, who is 30 years old, was forced to become destitute and homeless. Her husband, Mr. Liu Xiangling (also a practitioner) was surrounded and attacked by three plainclothes policemen in a hospital in Changsha City and was taken away.

Practitioners are forced to perform hard labour in Wuyuan Forced Labour Camp. For example, in the heat of the summer, they have to cut reed grass for four to five hours a day in the heavily polluted water canal. Educational section workers attempt to force practitioners to give up their beliefs, and write the so-called Guarantee Statement to renounce Falun Gong, "Regret Statement," etc. Practitioners who refuse are transferred to other teams to be humiliated and beaten. Even 70-year-old practitioners are brutally beaten.

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Guo Baoshan was arrested in November 2007 for telling people the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong and bringing a verbal complaint against former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime head Jiang Zemin, [instigator of the persecution]. Mr. Guo is now detained at the Baixi Detention Centre in Yibin County.

When asked how they felt about the Splendor show, they answered unanimously in Chinese, "Very good! Very good!" Mr. Kung laughed and said, "We are very proud to be Chinese! The show has depicted true Chinese history and culture. It is very inspiring!

One month later, all diseases that had tortured me for many years disappeared. I felt very energetic. I could eat food that had been forbidden due to my gastroenteritis and my joints no longer hurt. Since that time I have not taken any medicine. I am now over sixty years old and can work as though I were in my twenties.

On February 3rd, the Divine Performing Arts finished its sixth Chinese New Year Splendor performance in New York City. For the past few days, Radio City Music Hall has been packed with people from many different ethnic backgrounds, all different social strata, various ages, and a wide range of countries of origin.

When she was asked about her impression of this year's show, she commented, "We came back this year and brought even more friends. Everything this year is more beautiful - the special effects, the content, the inspiration."