The man who recently caught police attention for allegedly abusing his 21 children in the U.S. previously served as a high-level Chinese government official for at least two decades in the region at the heart of the communist nation’s ongoing genocide, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation.
In May 2025, police in Arcadia, California, arrested Xuan Guojun, 65, and his wife, Silvia Zhang, 38, for child endangerment after their two-month infant was brought to a hospital suffering from a traumatic head injury, The Associated Press reported. Police reviewed security footage from the couple’s $4 million, 10,000 square-foot mansion and allegedly discovered that their nanny, Li Chunmei, 56, had verbally and physically abused their 21 children, 17 of whom are toddlers, the New York Post reported.
Xuan and Zhang have not been charged, Arcadia police told the DCNF, but authorities removed the children from their custody and are now working with the FBI to investigate the couple and their former company, Mark Surrogacy Investments LLC, which allegedly failed to disclose that surrogates were carrying the couple’s embryos, according to the New York Post.
While the scope of Xuan’s alleged surrogacy scheme remains unclear, translated Chinese government and state media reports reveal that he has held multiple Chinese government positions, including serving as a representative to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) People’s Congress, which has enacted increasingly repressive policies contributing to China’s ongoing genocide against Uyghur and other ethnic minorities, according to U.S. lawmakers and human rights activists.
Salih Hudayar, Minister of Foreign Affairs for the East Turkistan Government-In-Exile, told the DCNF that “millions of Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples were torn from their families, sent to concentration camps, psychologically destroyed, tortured, or even killed” due to the actions of members of the XUAR People’s Congress and related Chinese government bodies.
“Their hands are fully stained with the blood of the Uyghur and other Turkic peoples,” Hudayar said. “They must be held accountable.”
Then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo determined in January 2021 that the Chinese government was committing genocide against Uyghurs and other minorities.
Xuan, Zhang and Li could not be reached for comment.
‘Repression And Bloodshed’
Xuan served as a representative to both the Urumqi Municipal People’s Congress and the XUAR People’s Congress, Chinese media and state media reports reveal.
“[T]he history of the CCP in the region has been one of repression and bloodshed, beginning in 1949 with the forcible annexation of East Turkistan by Mao Zedong,” New Jersey Republican Rep. Chris Smith told the DCNF. Smith serves as co-chair of the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), which Congress created to “monitor human rights and the development of the rule of law in China.”
Xuan joined the Urumqi Municipal People’s Congress in 1997, according to a 2012 interview published by Chinese media outlet Sina, which features Xuan’s photo. The article identifies Xuan as a representative to the XUAR People’s Congress and as the “general secretary” of Xinjiang Chuang Da Refrigeration Co. Ltd., which sells frozen goods and other food products, according to Chinese business filing platform Qichacha.
While still serving in the Urumqi Municipal People’s Congress, Xuan joined the XUAR People’s Congress in 2008, according to Chinese academic journal platform Xueshu.
Both bodies are subnational cousins of China’s National People’s Congress, which functions as a “‘rubber stamp’ legislature” under CCP control, according to a CECC report.
By 2012, Xuan had submitted over 200 proposals to the two congresses — more than any other representative, Sina reported.
When asked about himself in the interview published by Sina, Xuan laughed and described himself as “a person who loves to meddle in others’ affairs and provoke others” because he feels compelled to act when others need help, according to a DCNF translation.
“This individual did not join a democratic or independent legislature,” Hudayar told the DCNF. “Anyone who served in the so-called Urumqi or Xinjiang People’s Congresses between 1997 and 2012 was fully complicit in genocide.”
Hudayar cited seven regulations passed by the XUAR People’s Congress between 2008 and 2012 that upheld “policies central to the ongoing genocide,” including the Ethnic Unity Education Regulation, the Regulation On The Comprehensive Management of Social Order, the Revised Population and Family Planning Regulation and the Bilingual Education Promotion Regulation, which collectively criminalized expressions of Uyghur identity, initiated mass surveillance and expanded coercive reproductive controls.
The Chinese government goes to great lengths to recruit loyalists, doubly so when appointing representatives to sensitive bodies like the XUAR People’s Congress where members are implicitly, if not explicitly, expected to advance the CCP’s ethnic and demographic control agenda by enforcing existing laws, Hudayar said.
Hudayar pointed to the 2002 Xinjiang Population and Family Planning Regulation as an example of a law contributing to genocide that Xuan, as a XUAR People’s Congress representative between 2008 and 2012, would have been “complicit in upholding.”
“The 2002 regulation remained in full force during [Xuan’s] time in office and was further revised in 2011,” Hudayar said. “[The 2002 regulation] targeted Uyghur and other Turkic women and their unborn babies, resulting in the forced abortion of over 3.7 million babies by 2009 and the continued forced sterilization of hundreds of thousands of Uyghur and other Turkic women.”
[Image created by DCNF with pictures from Sina and WWNYTV]
‘Must Be Investigated’
Xuan has also held leadership positions within multiple organizations controlled by a CCP influence and intelligence service called the United Front Work Department (UFWD) as well as within Chinese civic associations cooperating with Chinese law enforcement, according to Chinese government and media reports.
A UFWD “subordinate unit” called the All-China Federation Of Industry And Commerce (ACFIC) has identified Xuan as an official for several Xinjiang branches, including as an “executive committee” member for the XUAR ACFIC branch, according to a January 2017 announcement concerning that organization’s annual conference in Urumqi. Photos show Xuan on stage during the conference, and the announcement also identifies Xuan as the “executive deputy chairman” of a related Xinjiang-Zhejiang ACFIC branch.
United Front arms often utilize a so-called “two nameplates” system in which an organization, like ACFIC, will masquerade as a “chamber of commerce” to conceal Chinese government-ties, according to The Jamestown Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit. Xuan has served as the president of the California-based U.S.-Xinjiang Chamber of Commerce since at least 2019, according to an announcement by the Chinese American Federation, which itself has identified Xuan as its “executive deputy chairman” since at least 2018.
Xuan also serves as the “honorary deputy chairman” of the Wenzhou Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, according to a 2023 Chinese American Federation announcement. The Wenzhou Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce is one of several Chinese civic associations operating an unsanctioned Chinese government satellite court on U.S. soil, the DCNF reported in January 2025.
Another California-based Chinese civic association called the U.S.-Zhejiang General Chamber of Commerce also identifies Xuan as its “executive chairman,” according to an announcement from that organization. The co-chairman of that civic association is both a mediator for the Wenzhou People’s Court and also a Zhejiang Ministry of Public Security (MPS) supervisor, the DCNF’s January 2025 investigation found.
“Anyone with these type of Chinese government and United Front-ties must be investigated by the FBI and thoroughly prosecuted by the Department of Justice,” Hudayar said.
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