When the CCP’s Organ Transplant Industry Hitches a Ride on the “Belt and Road”

The film State Organs exposes the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong and crimes such as live organ harvesting, drawing widespread attention. (Provided by Canada’s Ruyi Film Company)

[People News] Recently, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held the 8th Organ Donation Conference and the “Belt and Road” International Cooperation and Development Forum on Organ Donation and Transplantation in Guangzhou, proclaiming that it would promote so-called “Chinese experience” along the Belt and Road.

The CCP’s long-operated “Belt and Road Initiative,” nominally launched in the name of economic investment, is in essence a means of controlling countries along the route through economic leverage, turning them into the CCP’s sphere of influence or even colonies. After the CCP’s dark organ transplant industry latched onto the Belt and Road, the most obvious evil consequence has been the establishment of telecom fraud parks in places such as Myanmar and Cambodia, exporting scams, human trafficking, and live organ harvesting transactions, and spreading the CCP’s crimes against humanity of organ theft beyond China’s borders.

After organ transplantation was bound to the Belt and Road, the CCP began cultivating this field intensively starting in 2016. Regional organ transplant centers were formed in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, as well as Tianjin, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Changsha, Zhengzhou, Xi’an, Kunming, Hainan, Urumqi, and other locations, each serving international patients from different regions. At the same time, the CCP took the lead in establishing the “Belt and Road” International Organ Transplant Cooperation and Development Alliance, built an integrated organ transplant technology platform, and formulated multiple standards related to organ transplantation.

The CCP’s organ transplant industry has always relied on a large number of organ donors of unknown origin. After 2000, China’s transplant volume experienced explosive growth. Compared with the years-long waiting times abroad, Chinese hospitals claimed that organs could be obtained within days or weeks and were of good quality, thereby attracting large numbers of foreigners to China for “organ transplant tourism.”

In 2013, Phoenix Weekly published an article titled The Dark Inside Story of the Trade in Human Organs in China, which stated: “In the past decade, it has become internationally popular to go to mainland China for organ transplant surgery. Its distinguishing feature is that there is no waiting time for organs in the mainland; the required matched organs are almost available on demand…”

Taking Tianjin’s “Orient Organ Transplant Center” as an example, its website explicitly stated that the waiting time for liver and kidney transplants could be as short as one week and no longer than one month; hospital statistics showed that in 2005 the average waiting time for liver transplants was two weeks.

In 2004, Sanlian Life Weekly reported that among foreigners undergoing surgery at this hospital, South Koreans were the most numerous, along with patients from nearly 20 Asian countries and regions, including Japan, Malaysia, Egypt, Pakistan, India, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Along with overseas patients came enormous transplant revenues. In 2004, the fee for a single liver transplant at this center was US$32,000, rising to US$40,000 in 2005. According to Southern Weekly, “the rapidly expanding business brought huge revenues to the Orient Organ Transplant Center. Media reports previously disclosed that liver transplants alone could bring the center at least 100 million yuan in revenue per year.” This indicates that the center performed around 3,000 liver transplants annually.

Shen Zhongyang, director of the Tianjin Orient Organ Transplant Center, concurrently served as director of the Liver Transplant Research Institute at the Armed Police General Hospital. By March 17, 2005, he had personally completed a cumulative total of 1,600 liver transplants, ranking among the highest volumes worldwide. Yet in 1999, the center performed only 24 liver transplants for the entire year—meaning that nearly all of Shen Zhongyang’s 1,600 transplants were carried out after 2000.

Enormous transplant profits, abundant organ donors of unknown origin, and strong demand from overseas patients together formed an international organ transplant industry chain to China. As a result, many Chinese hospitals established international medical departments, often providing one-stop services to foreign transplant patients. Tempted by exorbitant profits, not only major hospitals in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Hangzhou, but even many county- and town-level hospitals were receiving foreigners for organ transplants. Huang Jiefu, then vice minister of the CCP Ministry of Health, once admitted to the media that organ transplant institutions were “a mixed bag,” saying, “There are more than 600 hospitals and 1,700 doctors nationwide performing organ transplant surgeries—far too many!”

So where exactly lies the secret behind the vast difference between China’s organ transplant industry and that of the international community? The Dark Inside Story of the Trade in Human Organs in China revealed “why miracles of organ matching occur so frequently only in China.”

The article wrote: “Based on analysis of the strange phenomena in the mainland organ market, international medical experts believe there must exist a huge underground human organ bank, or even a living organ bank—living organ suppliers who have had their blood types tested and relevant records prepared in advance. Once the market generates ‘demand’ for organs, these living organ suppliers are sent into ‘hospitals’ (slaughterhouses). Only in this way can the organ market guarantee the ultra-short waiting times of ‘on-demand availability.’”

In July 2006, an independent investigation conducted by former Canadian Asia-Pacific Secretary of State David Kilgour and renowned international human rights lawyer David Matas also showed that “traditional sources of organ transplants, such as executed prisoners, voluntary donors, and brain-dead donors, cannot explain the total number of organ transplants in China. The only explanation for the explosive increase in transplant numbers is Falun Gong practitioners.”

The time period during which the CCP’s organ transplant numbers mushroomed coincides closely with the period beginning in July 1999 when the CCP started persecuting Falun Gong. Reports by the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong revealed that since 1999, under direct instructions from the CCP’s top leadership, both military and civilian hospitals have been deeply involved in the crime of live organ harvesting. The direct consequence has been a sharp decline in social morality under the drive of enormous profits and the creation of organized live organ harvesting criminal networks, involving the CCP’s military, police, procuratorates, courts, and medical personnel.

In other words, the large number of organ donors of unknown origin used in the CCP’s organ transplants are Falun Gong practitioners who were illegally detained. The CCP has built dozens of secret human organ warehouses across the country, similar to the one in Sujiatun, Shenyang.

Why does the CCP spare no effort in promoting organ transplantation overseas?

In 2014, Huang Jiefu, then chairman of the CCP Human Organ Donation and Transplantation Committee, traveled to Taiwan to personally promote the establishment of a “cross-strait organ transplant platform,” stating that mainland organs would be legally supplied to Taiwan so that “patients would not need to travel from Taiwan to mainland China for organ transplants.” This move was met with widespread skepticism and resistance in Taiwan.

In 2015, Huang Jiefu also claimed to the media that “in the future, China’s organ transplant costs will be the cheapest, most accessible, and of high quality compared with the rest of the world.”

In January 2023, Huang Jiefu said the CCP would export organs to Hong Kong and Macau, promote the “construction of an organ-sharing mechanism between the mainland and Taiwan,” and connect this with Belt and Road countries.

In recent years, Huang Jiefu has also said that he “hopes foreigners will all come to China for organ transplants, because there are abundant human resources domestically.”

Huang Jiefu has been called the “godfather” of the CCP’s live organ harvesting, doing everything possible to whitewash the CCP’s crimes. His promotion of the CCP’s organ transplantation abroad is not only about selling Chinese living donors for huge profits, but also about using organ transplants as a united front tool—luring global elites to China for organ replacements to achieve political objectives.

With the formal implementation of the Regulations on Human Organ Transplantation and Donation of the People’s Republic of China in 2024, the CCP’s organ acquisition model has effectively been legalized by the government. On September 3 this year, Xi Jinping publicly discussed a 150-year longevity plan, demonstrating that for their own life extension, the CCP leadership has long treated illegal live organ harvesting as a state industry, viewing all Chinese people as “human mines” to be exploited and exported overseas for massive profits.

Nigeria is an important partner in the CCP’s Belt and Road Initiative, and crimes of live organ harvesting appear to have followed the Belt and Road there as well. A few days ago, mainland media reported that “Nigerian police dismantled an illegal organ harvesting site,” stating that police discovered more than 100 corpses with organs removed in a hotel. The hotel’s basement was a slaughter room, with a whiteboard on the wall marked in red with “Liver ×2, Cornea ×1, Kidney ×1,” followed by smiley faces—just like food delivery orders already shipped.

Besides Nigeria, the telecom fraud parks spread across Cambodia and Myanmar are also products of Belt and Road exports. According to Thai police statistics, more than 70,000 Chinese people are trafficked from Thailand to Myanmar’s Myawaddy every year, with an average of over 200 people disappearing daily. The investors behind more than 30 parks in Myawaddy are basically CCP state-owned enterprises, with幕后 bosses being presidents of CCP-backed chambers of commerce locally, under the CCP’s United Front system.

Those tricked into the fraud parks—known as “piglets”—who fail to meet fraud performance quotas are resold and ultimately sold to Myanmar’s Myawaddy KK Park or to medical ships on the high seas, where their organs are harvested alive.

Recently, Thailand launched armed actions against Cambodia’s telecom fraud parks, targeting more than 50 such parks. Cambodia’s former prime minister Hun Sen, unable to withstand the pressure, openly called for “third-party” intervention to rescue them, otherwise he would disclose the shareholder lists of the fraud parks. Everyone knows this “third party” is the shareholder—the CCP.

The CCP not only treats all Chinese people as “state-owned organs,” exploiting and draining them at will, but even exports Chinese people abroad to reap exorbitant profits. In the process, it has also poisoned neighboring countries, turning Belt and Road nations into breeding grounds for the CCP’s crimes against humanity.

As the crimes of the CCP’s organ transplant industry hitching a ride on the Belt and Road continue to be exposed, the CCP packages them as “advanced technology” and “technical standards” for export to other countries. This is nothing more than an attempt to whitewash itself, divert international scrutiny of its live organ harvesting, and bind more countries and elites as accomplices to conceal its crimes against humanity.

(The Dajiyuan)
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