China's rich seek bodyguards schooled in digital dark arts - a new skillset in high demand

TIANJIN - At the Genghis Security Academy, which bills itself as China's only dedicated bodyguard school, students learn that the threats to the country's newly-rich in the tech age are more likely to emerge from a hacker than a gunman.

But the school says it cannot meet demand as China's rapid growth mints millionaires - 4.4 million according to a Credit Suisse 2019 report, more than in the United States. "I'm quick-tempered and very demanding," the army veteran from China's northern Inner Mongolia region told AFP."Only by being strict can we cultivate every good sword. If you don't forge it well, it will break itself."They train in rows in a large, shabby sports hall, holding blue plastic guns ahead of them with a steady stare - before practising hustling their clients safely into a black Audi with smashed windows.

"Chinese bosses don't need you to fight," Mr Chen told his students of a client base which includes the country's biggest real estate and tech firms. Student Zhu Peipei, a 33-year-old army veteran from northern Shanxi province, hopes becoming a bodyguard could offset his lack of professional skills or academic qualifications.But the alumni of the Genghis Academy also provide humdrum services, like accompanying children of the rich and famous to school - for a fee of 180,000 yuan a year.Students must also navigate the quirks of their wealthy clients, said trainer Mr Ji.

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