A large and well-established Australian company dealing in environmental products has been forced to shut down its' operations in China because of the government's fears of religious activity. It is just one of the latest acts of Communist China's public persecution of Christians -- though there's scores of injustices happening every week that we never hear about.In this case, the Enoch Group has been raided and attacked by various Chinese government agencies in Guangdong province since August of this year. The two owners of the Enoch Group, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel and Eliza Ng, were even put under house arrest from October 12 to 25, 2007. Their cellphones were confiscated and they were not allowed to go out of their house at Panyu district, Guangzhou, Guangdong province.
After intensive investigation and interviews with both the leaders of the company and some government officials in Guangdong province, China Aid learned that the move to shut down the company and freeze the nearly 100 million Yuan ($13 million) of in assets and patents, is purely politically motivated. High level government sources told CAA that some of the central government leaders were upset that the Enoch Group has hired a large number of Chinese Christians. The Chinese leaders suspect that the Enoch Group uses its company culture, “love, peace, joy and faithfulness”, to promote Christianity. Sources said the rather harsh tactic made against Enoch Group is to send a strong warning signal to other foreign businesses in China owned by Christians.
The Enoch group is a well-established ecological company which produces environmentally related products. Mr. and Mrs. Ng are both naturalized Australian citizens, immigrated from Hong Kong. Enoch group has branches in Australia, Hong Kong and mainland China. As a division of Enoch group, Guangzhou Enoch Biological Science and Technology Co., LTD is a bio-engineering corporation, whose research and development focuses on ecological agriculture, amendment of water quality, environmental protection and human health care.
For more of the details, read the press release at China Aid.
Hmm... Though the Western dollars are flowing into China from the anticipated Olympic games, I guess the spirit of the Olympics has yet to show.
