(Minghui.org) A recent hot mic conversation between Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin caught the public’s attention.
While walking with other leaders to a military parade in Beijing on September 3, Xi said, “In the past, it used to be rare for someone to be older than 70, and these days they say that at 70 one’s still a child.”
Putin replied, “With the development of biotechnology, human organs can be continuously transplanted, and people can live younger and younger, and even achieve immortality.”
Xi continued, “Predictions are, this century, there’s a chance of also living to 150 [years old].”
On the surface, this dialog seems to be about medical advancements. But where do these organs come from? For decades, there has practically been no organ donation system in China. Due to cultural reasons, few Chinese people voluntarily donate their organs when they die.
The video livestream was provided by CCTV. As Xi began speaking again, the video cut to a wide shot of Tiananmen Square and the audio faded. But these questions are still at the top of people’s minds.
Special Treatment for an Elite Group
This is not the first time the public has heard of a 150-year life span. An advertisement by the PLA General Hospital (also known as the 301 Military Hospital) in September 2019 mentioned a “981 Health Project” for senior CCP leaders. Initiated in 2005, this project aimed to extend the human life span to 150 years. Claiming that the hospital’s healthcare system was the best in the world, the advertisement said the average life expectancy of senior CCP officials had already risen to 88 by 2008. After significant progress in the past 60 years, their average life span has become longer than that of Western leaders.
The PLA General Hospital in Beijing is an important medical facility that provides healthcare to senior CCP officials. The advertisement was removed after it generated heated discussions on the Internet. The dialog between Xi and Putin, on the other hand, shows that the health project and ready access to organ transplants has become a norm for high officials.
High-ranking CCP officials are known to enjoy special privileges—from food to daily necessities to entertainment. According to one Chinese dissident, some CCP leaders maintain the vitality of their organs through regular injections of serums provided by young police officers. Jiang Mianheng, the oldest son of former CCP leader Jiang Zemin, had cancer and allegedly underwent three kidney transplants, with people being killed to provide the organs.
Organ Supply Chain
Renowned Chinese writer Hu Ping exposed a case of forced organ harvesting that took place in April 1978. When a high official’s life was in danger due to kidney failure, Zhong Haiyuan, an elementary school teacher who had been sentenced to death for criticizing the CCP chairman at the time, was shot and had her kidneys extracted by waiting medical personnel.
After Jiang Zemin launched the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999, he issued an order to “ruin [practitioners’] reputation, bankrupt them financially, and eliminate them physically.” He also approved the killing of Falun Gong practitioners for their organs.
In March 2006, two witnesses, Peter and Annie (pseudonyms), exposed a secret concentration camp at Sujiatun in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. Of the over 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners detained there, three quarters were killed for their hearts, kidneys, corneas, and other organs. Their bodies were cremated afterward.
A veteran military surgeon confirmed in the same month that the Sujiatun facility was only one of 36 such concentration camps in China. Over 14,000 practitioners were kept in a camp near Jiutai District of Changchun City, Jilin Province. The largest facility, 672-S, detained more than 120,000 practitioners. The military also participated in the organ supply chain, and this surgeon processed over 60,000 fabricated documents claiming that the organs were donated voluntarily.
Based on this and other information, Canadian MP David Kilgour and human rights lawyer David Matas published a report in July 2006 exposing the crime. Through additional investigations, State Organs: Transplant Abuse in China was published in 2012 and shed further light on this unprecedented crime.
Zheng Zhi, a former intern doctor at the Urology Department of Shenyang Army General Hospital, testified that he and three other military surgeons extracted a kidney from a soldier in 1994. No anesthesia was used, and the soldier was only 17 years old.
After Jiang started to persecute Falun Gong in 1999, the military received orders to detain a large number of practitioners. This happened in military bases in Sichuan Province, Hubei Province (especially Wuhan City), and Northeast China. Because the military was able to mobilize special trains, a large number detainees could be transferred overnight when hospitals needed many organs.
According to Zheng, the live organ bank in China was formed during those years. Because of the lucrative profits, these operations expanded from military hospitals to local hospitals. Local governments were instructed to form organ transplant centers focusing on kidneys, livers, and other organs. Medical facilities such as Tianjin Armed Police Hospital and Beijing Aerospace Hospital became part of the live organ supply chain as well.
Organ Harvesting on an Industrial Scale
According to witnesses, after victims’ organs were harvested, their bodies were cremated. As the number of victims soared, more and more bodies became available, and they were also used elsewhere for additional profit.
Bo Xilai, former governor of Liaoning Province, and his wife Gu Kailai not only played a role in organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners, but also supplied the corpses to plastination factories in Dalian that later supplied body exhibitions around the world. Moreover, hair from the bodies was made into wigs, and the skin and fat were sold for various purposes, testified Peter.
As the illicit organ transplant industry grew, children became increasing preyed upon. When the Children’s Major Organ Transplant Center was launched at the Children’s Hospital affiliated with Fudan University in May 2024, over 100 pediatricians attended the conference. Many parents worried about their children’s safety.
Luo Shuaiyu, an intern doctor at Xiangya Second Hospital, died in May 2024. Although authorities hastily claimed his death was suicide, his parents were able to recover a large amount of deleted data from his computer. In addition to 11,119 pages of material, they also included voice recordings and showed that the staff at Xiangya Second Hospital were engaged in organ trafficking and other crimes.
In the released recordings, the hospital president asked Luo to find 12 children between the ages of 3 and 9 as organ sources. The age group was further divided into ages 3-5 and ages 6-9, with three boys and three girls in each subgroup.
Hu Xinyu, a 15-year-old student at Zhiyuan High School, disappeared in October 2022. Although authorities claimed to find his body 106 days later and ruled his death a “suicide,” evidence showed he was another victim of organ harvesting.
In the early days of the persecution of Falun Gong, a large number of police officers went to Beijing to stop practitioners from appealing. Some of these practitioners were tortured to death, some suffered from psychiatric abuse, and some were taken to concentration camps for organ harvesting. CCP officials eventually applied these same tactics to other minority groups.
Although the CCP has tried all means to cover up its crimes of forced organ harvesting, numerous pieces of evidence have shown the horror and scale of this atrocity, which has not stopped. The independent China Tribunal in London concluded in March 2020, “In the long-term practice in the PRC of forced organ harvesting it was indeed Falun Gong practitioners who were used as a source – probably the principal source – of organs for forced organ harvesting.”
In June 2021, UN human rights experts said they were extremely alarmed by reports of alleged organ harvesting targeting minorities, including Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims and Christians, who are detained in China.
Additional efforts are needed to end the crime of forced organ harvesting, including legislation in other countries to prevent their citizens from becoming complicit. The perpetrators will ultimately be held to account for these atrocities, including CCP members who choose to remain in the party, as well as people inside and outside China who have enabled or participated in this illicit industry.
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