Bao Wanming is a Falun Gong practitioner from Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province, who is serving a nine-year prison sentence for distributing informational materials about Falun Gong.
Arrest and detention
On October 12, 2020, Bao Wanming was arrested together with two fellow Falun Gong practitioners from Jixi — Zhou Keming and Teng Shuli. According to reporting by Minghui.org, Zhou had been monitored by police for distributing informational materials about Falun Gong; Bao and Teng, who were distributing materials with him, were arrested at the same time. The three were held at the Jixi City Detention Center.
Trial and sentencing
The three practitioners were tried by the Jidong County Court on April 23, 2021, through a video conference. Bao was represented by a lawyer, who entered a not-guilty plea on his behalf; the other two represented themselves and also pleaded not guilty. Reporting notes that the judge and prosecutor repeatedly interrupted the defense, and that Bao testified that police had included items not belonging to him as prosecution evidence.
On June 2, 2021, the court announced the verdicts: Bao Wanming, then 50 years old, was sentenced to nine years in prison and fined 100,000 yuan. Teng Shuli was sentenced to seven years, and Zhou Keming to four years. All three appealed to the Jixi City Intermediate Court, which upheld the original sentences.
Imprisonment
On October 19, 2021, Bao Wanming and Zhou Keming were taken to Hulan Prison in Heilongjiang Province.
Status
Bao Wanming is listed among the political prisoners and prisoners of conscience currently in custody in the Rights Defense Network’s monthly report for August 2026 (Issue 131), which groups him with those serving nine-year sentences.
Sources and attribution
The details above are drawn from Minghui.org, a Falun Gong–affiliated publication, and from the Rights Defense Network (维权网) prisoner roster. No official court document has been located; the legal characterization of the case and the details of the trial are reported by these sources and have not been independently verified by the publisher.
A chronological archive of reporting on this case is available in the Bao Wanming Media Archive.