On August 16, 2012, at a hospital in Henan Province, doctors transported organs awaiting transplantation. Recently, a conversation between CCP leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin about organ transplantation for life extension was captured by an open microphone, drawing attention to a secret CCP program. (Sohu.com/Screenshot via The Dajiyuan)
[People News] For decades, the CCP’s “981 Project,” which exclusively serves Beijing’s elite class, has remained largely unknown to the outside world. Thanks to the efforts of a small group of Western researchers investigating the CCP’s medical research that disregards all ethical boundaries, along with revelations from insiders, the darkness surrounding these hidden corners has gradually been uncovered.
According to an article by Eva Fu for The Dajiyuan, translated by Zhang Zijun, this mysterious project—participated in by numerous top medical experts—is described as a path to longevity, representing the latest attempt in nearly a century to provide internal healthcare privileges to the CCP’s top leadership.
This year, during a conversation between CCP leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the two discussed extending life through multiple-organ transplants and even mentioned that human life expectancy could be extended to 150 years. This exchange was captured because a microphone wasn’t turned off, pushing the long-obscure project into the public spotlight.
Following the claim that “people can live to 150 years,” clues point to a premier military hospital in Beijing and the CCP’s “981 Project.” Further investigation sounded the alarm. Researchers noted that the hospital’s history and its now-deleted descriptions about “organ function regeneration” may indicate a far darker practice: harvesting organs from living people.
Fighting Against Death
On September 3, 2025, an open microphone from state broadcaster CCTV caught a conversation between Xi Jinping and Russian and North Korean leaders while they watched a grand military parade in Tiananmen Square.
“In the past, people rarely lived to 70, but now at 70 they’re like children,” Xi Jinping told Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin replied that continuous organ transplantation can make a person increasingly youthful. Both Putin and Xi are 72 years old.
Xi added: “Some predict that in this century, humans may be able to live to 150 years.” His voice then drifted off-screen.
This idea of life extension can be traced back to a one-minute promotional video from Beijing’s 301 Hospital in 2019. The hospital’s full name is the General Hospital of the People’s Liberation Army, the most elite military hospital in China, dedicated to providing medical care to the CCP’s top leadership.
In the video, the narrator referred to the “981 Project” as a “150-year longevity project to fight death.”
The advertisement claimed that the hospital has spent over sixty years developing a healthcare system combining “the essence of traditional Chinese health culture with advanced Western medical technology.” The narrator asserted that this medical system—designed exclusively for the CCP elite—has been “validated in practice” and is “remarkably effective,” presenting a data chart showing that the average life expectancy of CCP leaders is “far higher than that of leaders of developed Western countries during the same period,” by at least ten years.
Such bold claims deeply alarmed medical ethicists.
Dr. Torsten Trey, Executive Director of Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH), based in Washington, D.C., told The Dajiyuan: “Diseases are not like light switches that can be turned on and off at will. Talking about how to stay in power and live to 150 is one thing, but in practice, how exactly do they plan to achieve this?”
Organs Available on Demand
The “how to achieve it” is precisely what the CCP-backed “981 Project” attempts to solve.
Public records show that the “981 Senior-Leader Health Project” began in 2005, built on “more than eighty years of red healthcare history.” According to descriptions previously available in China’s information database (later deleted), it is a “pilot project” led by senior medical officials of the CCP military, concentrating “the nation’s highest-level medical resources” and top medical talent.
The project’s name carries symbolic meaning.
The number “9” is associated with longevity in Chinese, and “81” refers to the founding date of the CCP military on August 1. Zhao Wei, founder and deputy director of the “981 Senior-Leader Health Project,” who once served in the CCP’s Central Military Commission, said in a 2016 interview that “8 plus 1 equals 9, and ‘double nines’ symbolize health and longevity.”
The 981 Project requires comprehensive medical screenings and meticulous health management, with tests differing by profession—astronauts and military pilots undergo as many as 150 tests.
However, prevention has limits—as age increases, organs inevitably fail. To address this, the 2019 advertisement (later deleted) offered one solution: “organ function regeneration.”
“Organ function regeneration” is one of six focal areas of the 981 Project. According to Dr. Trey, the phrase could refer to multiple possibilities: organ transplantation, drug-based therapies, or stem-cell treatments. While the project reveals few concrete details, the mere mention of organ transplantation raises concern given China's long-standing, widely criticized record of transplantation abuse.
Target Population for Live Organ Harvesting
As early as 2006—one year after the 981 Project began—whistleblowers raised alarms about systematic, state-sanctioned organ harvesting in China.
One whistleblower, a medical worker from a hospital in northeastern China, told The Dajiyuan that her ex-husband, a neurosurgeon, had removed corneas from illegally detained Falun Gong practitioners and sent their bodies directly to the crematorium for incineration.
In 2019, a U.K. independent tribunal known as the China Tribunal—chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice, the war-crimes prosecutor who once tried former Serbian President Slobodan Milošević at The Hague—concluded that organ harvesting had been taking place across China under CCP supervision, and that Falun Gong practitioners were “probably the main source.”
By the late 1990s, Falun Gong had attracted 70 million to 100 million practitioners in China. Since 1999, it has been brutally persecuted by the CCP. Practitioners meditate daily, avoid smoking and alcohol, and cultivate a peaceful mindset. Researchers believe that these healthy habits make their organs highly desirable for the transplantation market.
Many Falun Gong practitioners refuse to reveal their names when arrested illegally, to protect family and friends. Without official identity records, they become highly vulnerable targets in the illicit organ trade, where anonymity is crucial.
The independent tribunal’s judgment stated: “In China, hospitals have a bank of organ donors whose organs can be extracted on demand.”
The report also stated that CCP authorities “can easily control the fate of Falun Gong practitioners,” turning them into an on-demand source of organs.
Sir Geoffrey Nice, QC, a British barrister and chair of the independent UK “People’s Tribunal,” ruled that the CCP continues to harvest organs from Falun Gong practitioners. The hearings were held on December 9, 2021, in London. Sir Geoffrey Nice previously served as a prosecutor at The Hague for the war crimes trial of former Serbian President Slobodan Milošević.
Former senior CCP official Bai Shuzhong was linked to organ harvesting and the “981 Project.” He had served as the head of the Health Department of the CCP military.
U.S. secret investigators spoke with Bai in 2014. In the recorded conversation, Bai admitted that harvesting organs from Falun Gong practitioners was carried out on orders from his superiors.
According to Chinese media reports, after retiring in 2004, Bai remained active in two national-level medical associations under CCP supervision. These associations awarded the “981 Project” prizes in 2013 and 2019 and provided other forms of guidance.
“Many organs” replaced
Since the late 1970s, when China’s organ transplantation industry began, CCP officials have treated organ transplantation as a way to extend life.
According to News Digest (now China News Digest), in 1978, medical personnel removed both kidneys from a political prisoner immediately after execution. These organs were transplanted to the child of a senior CCP official suffering from kidney failure.
As the practice moved underground, the CCP tightly controlled the health records of the political elite. Nevertheless, reports of high-ranking officials receiving organ transplants occasionally leaked over the years.
In 2023, former Vice Minister of Culture Gao Zhanxiang passed away. An official obituary mentioned that he had undergone replacement of “many organs,” making headlines. The obituary stated that the 87-year-old “had many organs replaced,” and he reportedly joked that “many of the parts were no longer his own.”
A friend of former Finance Minister Jin Renqing, who knew him for 30 years, revealed in a now-deleted blog that Jin, like Gao, also underwent a heart transplant, allowing him to resume social life.
301 Hospital
Archives from the 981 Project’s website show that it maintained 11 departments at a Beijing medical center. However, since they were not listed individually, it is difficult to determine whether the project directly performed organ transplants.
Dr. Trey noted that, in any case, the 981 Project’s network includes sufficient medical institutions capable of providing transplantation through referrals. The project has hundreds of partner hospitals, many of which, due to their high transplant volume, have been included in international investigations as potentially involved in organ transplant abuse. Among them is 301 Hospital, the General Hospital of the People’s Liberation Army, which had released the 2019 advertisement calling the 981 Project the “150-Year Longevity Project to Fight Death,” drawing renewed attention after Xi Jinping mentioned “living to 150.”
301 Hospital is China’s largest military hospital, providing care to senior CCP officials and military units.
The south wing of the hospital, adjacent to the state guesthouse, is heavily guarded and serves as the preferred medical facility for senior officials when ill.
The same doctors who once treated the CCP elite are now participating in the 981 Project, dedicated to achieving longevity for senior leaders.
In August 2011, 301 Hospital arranged a liver transplant for Wang Ying, head of a local public security bureau and responsible for suppressing Falun Gong. Official media described Wang as a “first-class exemplary hero.”
From admission to completion of the liver transplant, less than three months elapsed.
According to the CCP Ministry of Public Security website, on September 3, 2011, former Deputy Minister of Public Security Yang Huanning visited Wang after the surgery to convey his superiors’ congratulations, stating that 301 Hospital provided “first-class technical capability and medical conditions,” and that relevant political-legal departments and the national trade union also provided “all possible preparations” for the procedure.
One of the officials overseeing Wang’s transplant was Zhou Yongkang, at the time the third-ranking CCP figure. After Zhou fell from power, he was linked to illegal organ transplantation.
A source with deep knowledge of China’s healthcare system and close ties to CCP senior officials revealed that CCP leaders can access organs on demand. The source requested anonymity for fear of retaliation.
“Protecting the Leadership”
The history of the CCP leadership’s life-extension projects can be traced back to the party’s founding.
As early as the late 1920s, while struggling during the civil war, the CCP had already established a hospital to provide healthcare for its senior leaders.
According to official CCP historical records, shortly after taking power in 1949, the CCP built a 100-acre farm near Yuquan Mountain in Beijing. Soldiers were assigned to operate the farm, supplying fresh dairy and agricultural products to CCP officials. The area became known as the “political backyard” of China, hosting villas for senior military officers.
The records mention that the farm grew rare off-season foods favored by first-generation CCP leaders, such as seedless watermelons, which only became commercially available in the late 1990s.
Mao Zedong’s personal doctor documented in his 1994 memoir that in the 1960s and 1970s, injecting senior officials with young soldiers’ blood was a popular “rejuvenation” practice. The memoir was published in the U.S. and banned in China.
Over the years, regardless of the latest longevity trends, one theme remained: the ruling class always comes first.
Chinese media reported that CCP cadres enjoy free top-tier healthcare in senior wards, with a curated team of nutrition experts designing their diets.
In 2006, official media cited a former deputy minister of health claiming that 80% of China’s healthcare expenditure was “spent on 8.5 million CCP officials.” The remark sparked nationwide backlash and was later retracted. Dajiyuan could not independently verify the claim.
Sources told The Dajiyuan that “protecting the leadership” is a national priority.
Dr. Ning Xiaowei, a cardiologist who worked in a senior ward at a top-tier hospital, recalled that a vice-provincial official, after suffering trauma, convened the province’s best doctors for consultation.
She said: “This is a typical example of the CCP hierarchy in operation. Those senior officials always claim to serve the people, but in fact, all the Chinese people are serving them.”
Data shows that the CCP’s privileged class has long enjoyed special treatment.
Dajiyuan analysis of public data found that in the late 1970s, the average Chinese life expectancy was 68, while top CCP officials lived into their 70s and 80s.
Major General Zhang Lixiong was one of the longest-living people in modern Chinese history, passing away in April 2024 at 110. Former State Councillor Song Ping remains alive at 108.
Low-Profile Operation
According to CCP media and promotional materials, the state-led 981 Project comprises roughly a dozen medical experts who previously treated senior officials at 301 Hospital.
Very little is known publicly about the project. Its first medical center opened in 2011, claiming to expand services to “industry elites.” The project reportedly has three world-class labs for genetic testing, immune cell experiments, and stem-cell regeneration, plus dozens of wellness centers, yet it has no dedicated official website. The latest archived webpage dates to February 2019, shortly before the project entered public view via advertisements.
However, praise and promotion of the project are widespread on the TikTok Chinese platform.
“Fantastic! Our clients’ average age is 92.5, with 38% over 100,” one post read.
“Healthy at 88; longevity of 150 is not a dream,” claimed another.
Other posts display portraits of the hospital’s top doctors in front of flags, smiling visitors, elegantly packaged products, and previews of VIP-only events.
In a November 2021 video, a tourist showcased a sparkling pool against green shrubbery, expressing appreciation for the “supreme treatment” experienced during a visit to the 981 Health Center on Hainan Island, a tropical island in China’s south famous for luxury resorts.
Sources said: “They are building large-scale medical infrastructure on Hainan Island and have hired top Western experts in disease and longevity to oversee the work.” The sources also noted that longevity projects are a top priority for the CCP regime.
By the end of 2021, the 981 Health Technology Group had over 3,700 members. Videos showed the billionaire CEO of Xiaomi Group and the former president of state-owned audio manufacturer Guoguang Electronic using it as their primary health-care option.
Yuan Hongbing, an Australian-based legal scholar with close ties to CCP senior officials, believes the 981 Project is an “upgrade” of past CCP red healthcare programs.
“For the CCP, this is a wealth-generating tool,” he told Dajiyuan.
He added that the 981 Project has created an ecosystem: providing healthcare to senior officials while aligning with political and social elites, giving corruption a veneer of legitimacy under the guise of wellness.
The development of the 981 Project coincides with a series of CCP-perpetrated persecutions.
Around the same time the 981 Project launched, China’s organ transplantation industry experienced rapid growth. Hospital archives show that to attract patients, hospitals used bright red text and sharply rising charts on websites to advertise their increasing number of organ transplant surgeries.
A Chinese hospital used a chart titled “Our Achievements” to publicize its organ transplant numbers. The hospital’s transplants skyrocketed from 9 cases in 1998 to over 1,600 in 2004 (World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong).
Under close international scrutiny, all such promotional materials were later removed from the hospital’s website.
In 2019, Chinese internet regulators deleted these hospital advertisements in a single day, citing “improper use of government agency names or personnel images.”
From that point on, the focus on “organ function regeneration” disappeared from the 981 Project’s descriptions.
This year’s incident with the unmuted microphone suffered a similar fate: the related videos were deleted from the Chinese internet, and authorization from international news agencies was revoked.
Dr. Trey noted that it is the opaque political system that makes the removal of such information even more alarming.
“If this were inconsequential, they wouldn’t care,” he said.
Instead, “they move it into a hidden mode and continue.”
Against Death
The first U.S. doctors’ group to publicly oppose China’s large-scale organ harvesting was the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. Nephrologist Dr. Richard Amerling, a former president of the association, said the mindset of a regime sacrificing innocent lives for its own benefit shocked him deeply.
“They don’t have an organ-sharing network like ours; obviously, the elite get priority for organs, right? Why wouldn’t they? These people have absolute power, so their organ network exists to sustain their own lives,” Amerling told The Dajiyuan.
“This is pure evil.”
However, for a regime that places governance above all else, this is just part of the transaction, according to Chinese whistleblower Dr. Zheng Zhi. In the 1990s, he participated in an eye-removal operation in a military truck; years later, he personally witnessed an officer promising a senior official a “fresh” kidney from a Falun Gong practitioner.
Zheng Zhi was interviewed in Toronto, Canada, on July 31, 2023. Since 2006, he has been one of several witnesses exposing China’s organ harvesting to The Dajiyuan.
He said the secret “military mission” he initially participated in as a surgeon has now expanded far beyond what the public can imagine.
“This is no longer a secret,” he told The Dajiyuan. “It’s just that nobody dares to speak openly about it.”
Dr. Trey observed that an atheistic regime’s mindset is indifferent to human life and will constantly push boundaries to achieve its objectives.
“They basically treat the human body as an object—like a car—and replace organs just as you would replace car parts,” he said.
However, Dr. Andreas Weber, deputy director of the European branch of Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH), emphasized that unlike car parts, human organs cannot be replaced repeatedly.
He explained that surgeries damage the veins connecting transplanted organs to the host, and the damage accumulates over time.
“The more procedures performed on these vessels, the more likely they are to fail,” he said.
Immuno-suppressant drugs, required for transplant recipients, also make patients vulnerable to viruses such as COVID-19, which experts told The Dajiyuan may have contributed to the death of a former high-ranking Chinese official.
Dr. Trey said China’s longevity programs reveal one thing CCP leaders will never publicly admit: they fear death.
“If they live, they can have everything; if they die, they have nothing. So they want to fight death.”
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