A Canton Road massage business that was closed by Cobb County government in 2024 over allegations of improper operations is appealing a denial of a health spa permit.
Top Massage will be presenting its appeal Tuesday before the Cobb Board of Commissioners after the Cobb County License Review Board upheld the denial.
The Board of Commissioners is the last avenue of appeal in such cases, and the hearing will take place at the end of Tuesday’s regularly scheduled meeting.
Businesses in unincorporated Cobb that offer massage services must obtain a special health spa permit from the county. Massage therapists also must be certified by the state.
Top Massage was among a number of massage businesses that were closed by Cobb officials in 2024 for a variety of allegations, including not having properly licensed therapists.
In May, the Cobb Business License Division turned down Top Massage’s application for a health spa permit, saying that Xingtong Meng, the licensee, didn’t disclose previous employment at a Cartersville massage business that reportedly advertised “illicit sexual services,” and that Meng “did not honestly disclose his arrest history.”
According to a denial letter included in an agenda for Top Massage’s appeal, Meng was arrested by Duluth Police in August 2025 for a failure to appear on traffic citations.
The county said in the health spa application that Meng indicated he had not been arrested, “which is not truthful.”
Cobb officials also allege that Meng did not disclose that he was the “likely” licensee of an Acworth massage business that the county closed down and that also wasn’t disclosed in the application for Top Massage.
The county’s denial letter also states that Top Massage employee Haixing Jin is a state-licensed massage therapist, “his license is currently on probation.”
The Business License Division sent an investigator to Vivi Massage of Cartersville, where Meng worked, and found employees there apparently living there but who did not have state massage licenses. The business was later closed due to cooking activity on-site.
The county’s denial letter states that Meng confessed to Cobb officials he was untruthful about his arrest in Duluth. The letter also states that Meng doesn’t personally know Yunji Jin, the Top Massage owner and the father of Haixing Jing, but that he is a flight instructor wanting to make some extra income as a spa licensee.
Meng told county officials he was asked to serve as the Top Massage licensee due to Haixing Jing’s probationary status.
When Cobb commissioners upheld the Top Massage closure in October 2024, they weren’t sympathetic to pleas from the business’ former owner, Zhe Han, to rectify issues over licenses and permits.
“These cases we don’t take lightly,” Commissioner JoAnn said in moving to extend the Top Massage license suspension. “There’s no excuse not to know the law and our code.”
The Cobb commissioners meeeting begins at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the second floor board room of the county office building at 100 Cherokee Street, Marietta.
You can view the full agenda by clicking here.
You also can watch the meeting on the county’s website and YouTube channels and on Cobb TV 23 on Comcast Cable.
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