(Minghui.org) A large body of evidence on forced organ harvesting by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has emerged in recent years. Numerous books have also been published on this atrocity that victimizes Falun Gong practitioners, such as Bloody Harvest (2009), State Organs: Transplant Abuse in China (2012), and The Slaughter (2014).
In 2019, the China Tribunal published its final judgment on this crime against humanity, stating, “Forced organ harvesting has been committed for years throughout China on a significant scale.” The Tribunal’s report concluded that Falun Gong practitioners have been one—and probably the main—source of the supply of organs. These findings were also presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2019.
In 2016, the US House of Representatives unanimously passed resolution H.Res.343, expressing concerns over state-sanctioned organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners. The European Parliament adopted a similar resolution in 2022, calling on the EU and its member states to take further action.
Evidence has shown that, driven by the lucrative profits, this crime has now spread to the general public in China. After being repeatedly exploited by the CCP over the past several decades, Chinese citizens sometimes call themselves jiu cai (leeks), a plant that is easy to grow and can be harvested repeatedly.
In recent years, the Chinese have considered themselves ren kuang (human “mines”). This term refers to “those people who spend 20 years in school, pay real estate mortgages for 30 years, and help hospitals make profits for 20 years. The term implies that China’s people are treated as consumable products from the moment they are born,” reported The Diploma in January 2023. Compared to leeks, a human “mine” is a non-renewable resource in which the body parts of a Chinese citizen can be put to use to serve the Party.
Missing College Students
In 2014, a high number of female college students disappeared, were murdered, or were assaulted. Most of them were between the ages of 16 and 22, and their cases followed a similar pattern. They often disappeared after getting into a stranger’s car, taking an unlicensed taxi, working a summer job, or traveling alone. Some of them even vanished near the campus.
For example, before the CCP’s 19th National Congress, the mysterious disappearances of over 30 college students in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, were reported online in September 2017. Instead of looking for the missing individuals, officials arrested netizens who posted the news to cover it up. Although the parents of these students knew the reports were true, they were nonetheless silenced, and the online posts were removed.
In 2020, the CCP ramped up campaigns on college campuses to encourage organ donations. Colleges across China mobilized students to sign up for such activities. Some students became organ donors either willingly or passively. In the meantime, increasing numbers of students were going missing.
In Wuhan, a major city in central China with dozens of universities, rumors began to circulate in 2025. Zhang Yu, a former nurse in Wuhan, said, “Students who get into unlicensed taxis never return.” When parents contacted the colleges after their children went missing, school officials shirked their responsibility, saying surveillance footage showed the students had left the campus. According to Zhang, this has left her and other parents very worried about their children’s safety.
It is puzzling why the police did not address these issues and even punished citizens who publicized the information online. The age range of these missing young adults, both male and female, certainly implies a connection with organ harvesting.
Mysterious Deaths on Campus
Even living at school is not safe. Hu Xinyu, a 15-year-old high school student, disappeared in October 2022 from a boarding school in Jiangxi Province. Despite extensive surveillance cameras on the campus, there was no explanation for how a student like Hu could vanish from the school. In addition, Hu’s parents and other relatives were forbidden by officials to communicate with the outside on the issue.
Officials later concluded this was a suicide, but the “evidence” they provided was not convincing. Based on scattered information accessible to the public, netizens believed Hu had a special blood type that matched a high official who needed an organ transplant. This had led to his admission to the school even though his score on the entrance exam was below the minimum requirement. Internet celebrity Song Zude once “confirmed” Hu’s death was related to organ harvesting.
Zhu, a 13-year-old student, died mysteriously at a school in Xincai County in Henan Province on January 8, 2026. With no medical records, officials hastily concluded his death resulted from heart disease, which is very rare for a minor. In addition, officials initially prevented his parents from viewing the body. Only after repeated demands from the family were the parents allowed to see his body. There was no satisfactory answer to explain on the needle marks on his chest.
Whistleblowers revealed that Zhu was Rh-negative, a rare blood type, often called “panda blood” for that reason, occurring in only 0.1%-0.4% of the population in China. Once again, school officials refused to release surveillance footage, suppressed protesting parents with armed police, and even blocked nearby roads to stop the protests.
With all these unanswered questions, atypical responses from officials, and hearsay about organ harvesting, many parents went to the school and transferred their children elsewhere.
Voluntary Organ Donation
For cultural reasons, organ donation in China has been uncommon. A Red Cross representative told the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) that only about 100 organs were donated in Zhejiang Province in 2016, and some of them were unsuitable for transplanting.
Because of blood type and tissue matching, these organs could account for only a limited number of transplants, and this trend was observed throughout China. Data indicates, however, that eight hospitals in Zhejiang Province alone conducted over 1000 kidney transplants. This discrepancy became a key piece of evidence collected by WOIPFG to confirm the existence of organ harvesting.
Besides young adults as mentioned at the beginning of this article, the CCP has now expanded children in middle school, elementary school, and even kindergarten. A blogger in Shanghai wrote in November 2025 that her child brought a consent form home from school about blood sampling, biological sample identification, and laboratory testing. Most parents supported the blogger’s decision to not sign the form to avoid the risk of potential organ harvesting. Many said their children had already had samples of their blood taken at school without parental consent.
A Hidden Supply Chain in the Medical System
The concerns of these parents are not groundless as they match patterns in the healthcare system.
Luo Shuaiyu, an intern at Xiangya Second Hospital in Hunan Province, died under mysterious circumstances in May 2024, just before he graduated. After his death, his family was able to retrieve some information from his computer. One of the files was an audio recording indicating that the hospital required Luo to secure 12 donors between the ages of three and nine. If he did not, he would not be allowed to graduate.
Luo had also collected more information on how the medical staff in the facility participated in organ harvesting. His parents suspected Luo’s death was related to his refusal to participate in the crime.
Zhang explained that, based on her experiences working in Wuhan, blood type and tissue matching with patient samples had become an open secret. When a match was found, the donor/victim would be hidden in an organ supply chain. At large medical facilities such as Xiangya Second Hospital, it isn’t just a few isolated doctors who participate in organ harvesting—it involves a systematized infrastructure that includes the hospital president and administrative staff. And helicopters are used for quick delivery of organs.
Xie Wenqing, a medical professional who left China in November 2022, said some Chinese surgeons carried out transplants with organs supplied by agents, most of them from military hospitals. To placate the surgeons, they claimed the organs came from poor families in Southeast Asia who could not afford to raise their children.
Since an organ can survive only for a short time outside a human body, Xie said those claims were lies, that the organs actually came from individuals inside China—detainees, minority groups, and “missing” students.
A Disturbing DNA Database
In 2002, the Chinese media reported the launch of a project called the Genetic Identification Card. According to the news, the card carries 18 unique digital genetic codes selected from the DNA molecular chain of the holder. Experts say that there are 10 billion combination possibilities, making identification virtually foolproof. The genetic information can be obtained from a drop of blood, a hair follicle, or a tissue cell.
When people need organ or bone marrow transplants, these Genetic IDs can be used for matching, explained the article. “A human gene bank is also being established throughout China. Once completed, doctors will be able to quickly find organs, blood, or cells with matching tissue types from the gene bank.”
In a country under totalitarian rule with no judicial independence or checks and balances, such a database could easily be used by the authorities to suppress ordinary citizens, target minority groups, and exploit the system for financial gain.
Summary
The good health of Falun Gong practitioners has made them prime targets for organ harvesting during the over two decades they have been persecuted. According to a Minghui reader, all practitioners held in the distribution station in Hongshan Prison in Hubei Province in the summer of 2006 were forced to give blood samples. That same year, more than 500 practitioners detained in Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp in Jilin Province were also forced to undergo blood sampling.
It has been 20 years since organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners was first reported in 2006. With such a well established organ supply chain, officials have now now expanded potential “donors” to other minority groups, including even young adults and children.
It can be difficult to remain safe in such a society of human “mines.” A fundamental change will come after the CCP crumbles.
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