Insiders talk about the identity of the warrior who hung an anti-communist banner in Chengdu

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The identity of the warrior who hung an anti-communist banner in Chengdu has been revealed. Insiders talk about the inside story.

Reporters : Li Qingyi and Liu Fang / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2025/04/26/a103980105.html / Image : Web Screenshot

Recently, a video and picture of an anti-communist banner hung on an elevated bridge in Chengdu, Sichuan, were uploaded online. On 25 April 2025, the identity of the warrior who hung the banner was revealed, and netizens called him the "Peng Lifa" of Sichuan.

On 15 April 2025, a photo circulated online showed that outside the Chadianzi Bus Station in Chengdu, Sichuan, three large banners with red characters on a white background were hung on the elevated bridge, which read: "There is no national rejuvenation without political system reform", "The people do not need a political party with unconstrained power", and "China does not need anyone to point out the direction, democracy is the direction".

Yuan Hongbing, a legal scholar living in Australia, disclosed to the Epoch Times that the banner was discovered and reported by a patrolman after being hung for two hours; but the superior did not instruct to remove it immediately, but asked the patrolman to protect the scene. As a result, the banner was hung for "nearly three hours".

On 25 April 2025, Du Wen, a dissident living in exile, first disclosed the identity of the warrior who hung the banner. The warrior is named Mei Shilin, 27 years old, from Yongfu Town, Muchuan County, Sichuan.

Du Wen revealed to The Epoch Times that after Mei Shilin hung the banner, he sent him a 13-second video, picture and ID card, saying that he had prepared for this for more than a year. He believed that as a Chinese, he lived too unfairly, and he wanted to shout, even if he was torn to pieces. Du Wen advised Mei Shilin to leave China quickly, but Mei Shilin insisted on staying.

Du Wen, who now lives in Europe, was the director of the Legal Advisory Office of the Inner Mongolian Government and was persecuted and imprisoned by the CCP for nearly 13 years. For safety reasons, Du Wen did not immediately disclose Mei Shilin's identity.

At present, Mei Shilin has been out of contact for more than ten days. Du Wen speculated that Mei Shilin may have been arrested, and he called on all sectors of society to pay attention immediately.

Mei Shilin was called "Peng Lifa" of Sichuan by netizens. In October 2022, Peng Lifa hung a banner on the Sitong Bridge in Zhongguancun, Beijing, shouting "We don't want nucleic acid, we want food! We don't want blockade, we want freedom! We don't want lies, we want dignity!"

Afterwards, slogans demanding freedom and democracy appeared in various parts of China, and a "spark can start a prairie fire" trend has formed in the mainland.