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DOCUMENT:
http://www.zjsports.gov.cn/zjty/node12/node43/userobject1ai4698/00000002.xls

DOCUMENT METADATA:
Size: 3438080 Bytes
SHA-1 Signature: 1e1ee2513116b729b927a056cae1af9e87bdfc7e

DOCUMENT SOURCE:
Zhejiang Provincial Sports Administration
http://www.zjsports.gov.cn
IP Address: 60.191.63.85

DOCUMENT MIRRORS:
Mirror @wikileaks Courtesy Dan Schmitt
Internet Archive (Direct Download)
UCLA Radio Courtesy Carey Shenkman
Mirror @www.heathershow.com Courtesy Heather Lawver

DOCUMENT ANALYSIS:

Registration Number: TC2001C017
Name: Jiang Yuyuan 江钰源
National Id Number: 330302199310013648
Gender: F
Date of Birth 10/1/1993
Training: Gymnastics

After beginning her gymnastics career 
in Guangxi Province, she transferred to the
Zhejiang Provincial Team in 1999

Highlight of row 11279, showing Jiang Yuyan

Screenshot of the WorldLingo translation engine, with the name from row 11279 pasted in.

Credit where credit is actually due

I am dedicating this post to my anonymous source, without whom this would not have happened, as well as the large Internet community within China whom I believe started this investigation at much greater risks to themselves. In addition I'd like to cite four articles which pre-date this blog which cover a lot of the same material, though with a different presentation. It's impossible for me to know if I've run across the same or different documents than these reporters, because I've never had access to their urls. That said, these folks were covering this story long before I ever tried to learn anything about it.

• NY Times (Jere Longman and Juliet Macur)
• LA Times (Diane Pucin)
• Huffington Post (David Flumenbaum)
• Associated Press (Nancy Armour and John Leicester)

What Now?

This has been an exhausting week. I honestly don't know what there is left to do, after posting this document. It's an original document straight off a government web site, with government id numbers, birth dates, etc. There are over ten thousand names and hand entered details. How could anyone ever forge something like that? It would take an army to gather that amount of detail and make it stand up to scrutiny. I think I'm going to grab a beer and watch this young woman's identity vanish into thin air. If you're watching it with me, think about our upcoming American elections, which are going to be decided by voting machines which generate only electronic documents. Think about the permanence and weight of electronic documents. And think about a future in which our identities are purely electronic. Cheers!

update An article from 2007 which states that He Kexin was 13 at the time (making her 14 in 2008) is still hosted on a government website. Which would make five documents regarding Kexin, for anyone counting.