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                                                                    EXHIBIT 31.1


                                 CERTIFICATIONS

I, Carrie Hartwick, Chief Executive Officer of The Hartcourt Companies, Inc.,
certify that:

         1. I have reviewed this Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB of The
Hartcourt Companies, Inc.;

         2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make
the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements
were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

         3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial
information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the
financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the small business
issuer as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

         4. As both the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer
of the small business issuer, I am responsible for establishing and maintaining
disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e)
for the small business issuer and have:

         a) designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such
         disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our
         supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the small
         business issuer, including its consolidated Subsidiary, is made known
         to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period
         in which this report is being prepared;

         b) evaluated the effectiveness of the small business issuer's
         disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our
         conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and
         procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report; and

         c) disclosed in this report any changes in the small business issuer's
         internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the
         small business issuer's most recent fiscal quarter (the small business
         issuer's fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that
         has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect,
         the small business issuer's internal control over financial reporting;
         and

         5. As both the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of
the small business issuer, I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation
of internal control over financial reporting, to the small business issuer's
auditors and the audit committee of small business issuer's board of directors
(or persons performing the equivalent functions):

         a) all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design
         or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are
         reasonably likely to adversely affect the small business issuer's
         ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information;
         and

         b) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or
         other employees who have a significant role in the small business
         issuer's internal control over financial reporting.

Date: November 7, 2004                        /s/ Carrie Hartwick
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                                                  CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER