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Hongcheng Magic Liquid
The Hongcheng Magic Liquid incident〔 was a scam in China where Wang Hongcheng (), a bus driver from Harbin with no scientific education,〔 claimed in 1983 that he could turn regular water into a fuel as flammable as petrol by simply dissolving a few drops of his liquid in it.〔〔 He founded the Hongcheng Magic Liquid company with funds from Chinese governmental agencies〔〔 and other supporters, raising a total of 300 million yuan (US$37 million),〔〔 but no product was ever released.〔〔
Around that time, in 1994, the Chinese Government, alarmed by an increase in pseudoscience and superstitions since the death of Mao Zedong, made a declaration decrying the deterioration of science education in the country, taking several measures to improve science education and to improve the prevalence of science and technology in courts.〔〔〔 One of these efforts was to require the scientific authoritative journal ''Science and Technology Daily'' to carry an article critical of Hongcheng's invention, which had been previously rejected at several major Chinese publications.〔 This created a growing publicity and opposition of Hongcheng's invention, silencing his supporters.〔
In 1995 Hongcheng refused an invitation to carry a scientific appraisal of his invention at Beijing, and the notable scientist and debunker He Zuoxiu and other 40 scientists made a statement calling the Chinese Government to investigate his claims.〔 Hongcheng was eventually arrested, put to trial, and in 1998, was found guilty of fraud and deceit and condemned to 10 years of prison.〔〔〔
==Invention and initial experiments==
Wang Hongcheng was a bus driver from Harbin, a former soldier with ninth-grade education〔Meaning that he was schooled until the age of 14 or 15 years old. The magazine stating this is from the US, "ninth-grade" in the US corresponds to the first year of High school〕 and no scientific training.〔 In 1983 he claimed that he invented a liquid that could transform a liter of regular water into a fuel by simply adding two or three drops of his liquid, and that this resulting fuel was as combustible as petrol.〔〔 Hongcheng called it "the fifth greatest invention of China", in a reference to the four Great Inventions of China, and his invention became more popular, finally reaching on 28 January 1993 the front pages of a major national newspaper.〔 In the winter of 1985, Wang showed this technique in Beijing, Hebei, Zhejiang and Shanghai.
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