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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 Interim 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 Interim 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: May 20, 2005                           /s/ Carrie Hartwick
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                                             CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER