From Phoenix Weekly (link), translated by ESWN:
It was a twisted journey to gather news about Xu Wenkou, and it only made Xu even more mysterious.
Xu’s place of origin is at number 6-13531, Caishi street, Chengquan town, Zhenping county, Henan province. On the afternoon of March 1, 2006, Phoenix Weekly went to the town to look for the home of Xu Wenkou. When the office worker punched the identification number of Xu Wenkou into the computer to obtain the residential information, she had to exclaim “Oh!”. She said that many people have previously come to look up information about Xu.
According to the residential information, the householder Xu Wenkou is of Han origin and was born in 1946. The Xu family also has three other family members: Xu’s wife Wang, a daughter and another person named Li. According to the indictment sheet from the Shuangyashan city procuratorate, Xu Wenkou also uses the aliases of Xu Shengguang, Wang Shengjie, “Big Uncle,”, “Manager,” et cetera.
The Chengguang town police station residential information director Li Jing told Phoenix Weekly that this was just a town residential permit that Xu Wenkou bought. In 1993, it was common to sell town residential permits in Zhenping county, which were going at 500 RMB apiece. Number 6-13531 was just a residential permit number without a real physical address. The reporter saw that in the residential information, the address of the household was listed only as Houza. Houza is a small town in Zhenping county. When the reporter made inquiries at the Houza police station, he found nothing.
