Tactics and control strategies

"Secretive", "controlling", "money-loving" and "crazy" are the words Song Wang, a 30-year-old from Yongzhou county, Henan province, used to describe the sect.

When his wife, a member of Quannengshen, disappeared two years ago, Song went undercover to investigate the cult. "I attended several Quannengshen gatherings in our village and the local town, but they were all small events, with just five or six people. We met secretly. The venues and times of meetings were changed regularly," said Song.

"The content of the gatherings is very dull - they discussed how many people had been recruited recently, whether the tactics they had employed were right, and what to do next. They analyzed each village, and set major recruitment targets," he said.