Suspected to be funded by China! Huang Guochang's son involved in reverse osmosis law, Zhou Xiaoyun posted bail of 500,000 yuan

People's Party Chairman Huang Guochang was the director of the New Taipei City Sanchong Luzhou District Service Office when he was a legislator, and Zhou Xiaoyun is now a candidate for Taoyuan City Council. (File photo)

Zhou Xiaoyun, director of the New Taipei City Sanchong Luzhou District Service Office when Chairman Huang Guochang was the Legislator of the People's Party, was recruited by the People's Party to "parachute" into Taoyuan to run for city council after losing the party's primary election this year. Unexpectedly, she was suspected of being funded, entrusted and instructed by China to participate in the election, New Taipei District Prosecutor's Office Yesterday, 18 soldiers launched a search and interview. Today, they charged her with the crime of "participating in election activities under instructions from an infiltration source" under the Anti-Infiltration Act, the Personal Information Act, the Commercial Accounting Act and the Criminal Law. They ordered Ms. Zhou to post a bail of NT$500,000, restrict her overseas travel and residence, and implement monitoring of technological equipment.

The prosecutor yesterday directed the Investigation Bureau's New Taipei City Division, Information Security Station, Nangang Police Station, and Sanzhong Police Station to search 18 places including Zhou's residence, the congressman's residence, and notified Zhou and 14 other people to come to the case.

After interrogation by the prosecutor, Zhou was ordered to post a bail of 500,000 yuan for the alleged anti-osmosis law and other crimes, and the other three defendants were asked to post a bail of 300,000 yuan each. All four were restricted from leaving the country, going overseas, and implementing technological equipment monitoring; the remaining three defendants were asked to post bail in amounts ranging from 30,000 yuan to 1 million yuan, and the four defendants and three witnesses were asked to return.

Zhou Xiaoyun started from Kinmen after entering the political arena. She served as the Kinmen County Party Representative and Party Executive Director of the People’s Party. She ran for Kinmen County Councilor in 2022, but lost with only 1,157 votes. In May 2025, she decided to switch to New Jersey. She resigned from the post of CEO of Sanchong and Luzhou Districts in the North City and joined the Central Party Headquarters of the People's Party as deputy director of the Organization Development Department. In October of the same year, she was recruited to the New Taipei District to develop and serve as the director of the Luzhou District Service Office in Sanchong, the legislator Huang Guochang.

But at the beginning of 2026, Zhou Xiaoyun lost an upset to her amateur opponent Chen Yanting in the Sanchong and Luzhou City Council primaries of the People's Party. Afterwards, she bitterly complained that no one knew Chen Yanting. In May this year, she was recruited by the People's Party to "parachute" to Guishan District, Taoyuan City to run for city council. This triggered a local backlash and led to Gao Huahong, the former director of the People's Party Guishan who originally intended to run, to announce his resignation from the party, saying bluntly: "This is not competition, this is humiliation."