SUMMARY
Forced Organ Harvesting in China: The Evidence
Source: State Organs (2024 documentary)
Primary voice: Dr. Wang Zhiyuan, founder, World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun
Gong (WOIPFG)
Type: Documentary film transcript
Dr. Wang Zhiyuan's Background
Dr. Wang Zhiyuan is a physician who spent thirty years in clinical and research medicine. He
received his medical degree from the Fourth Military Medical University's Aviation Medical
Department, served as a chief aviation physician and editorial board member for China's
military aviation magazine, and was a member of China's first national military medicine
committee. After the Cultural Revolution, he came to the United States in 1995 and began
cardiovascular research at the Harvard School of Public Health. He would spend the next
decade investigating how doctors in China killed innocent people for their organs.
The Sujiatun Revelation (March 2006)
On March 9, 2006, two Chinese-language news outlets in the United States — The Epoch
Times and NTDTV — published testimony from two witnesses alleging that a concentration
camp in Sujiatun, China held thousands of Falun Gong practitioners whose organs were
being harvested by doctors. One witness, the ex-wife of a neurosurgeon at the facility, stated
that her husband had harvested organs from Falun Gong practitioners between 1999 and
2004. The victims had strong bodies and were still breathing when their organs were
removed. Their bodies were afterward thrown directly into the hospital's incinerator.

Wang was shocked but not fully convinced. The claims exceeded common sense in their
scale and severity — the witness described 6,000 imprisoned practitioners at the Sujiatun site
alone, and said her husband had harvested corneas from more than 2,000 individuals.
WOIPFG members decided to investigate without any predetermined conclusions.
Preliminary Investigation
WOIPFG — founded in 2003 to investigate the persecution launched by CCP General
Secretary Jiang Zemin in July 1999, when more than 70 million people practiced Falun
Gong in China — had previously documented torture and inhumane treatment. Forced organ
harvesting was something entirely new.
Investigators called the Sujiatun hospital that same night. Doctors and nurses provided little
information, but workers in the boiler room confirmed that they burned corpses there — both
male and female — and that they had recovered earrings, jewelry, and watches from the
bodies. The fact that a hospital was burning corpses in its boiler room rather than sending
them to a funeral home served as a critical wake-up call: the organ harvesting might be real.
Undercover Hospital Calls (2006–2007)
Wang and his team began systematically investigating hospitals conducting organ transplants
across China. Posing as patients' family members seeking transplant opportunities, they
called and interviewed 23 hospitals between 2006 and 2007, asking specifically whether
organs from Falun Gong practitioners were available.
The results were overwhelming. A doctor at Shanghai Fudan University's Zhongshan
Hospital, a director at another hospital, and others directly confirmed the use of Falun Gong
organs. A doctor at Shanghai's Changzheng Hospital stated explicitly that organs were all
harvested from Falun Gong practitioners.

The PLA 307 Hospital investigation: The most extended contact was with Chen
Chang, a kidney transplant coordinator at PLA 307 Hospital in Beijing. Over
approximately a month of phone calls, Chen described the operational chain from
government to police to prison in supplying Falun Gong organs. He said higher
authorities would provide documentation certifying the source, that the organs came
from practitioners detained around 2003 who had refused to identify themselves and
were known only by assigned numbers, and quoted a price of 230,000 yuan per kidney.
Wang observed that Chen treated this as entirely routine business, handling large
volumes of organs with clear pricing. After WOIPFG published initial reports, hospitals
became more guarded in their responses.
The Statistical Explosion
A 2010 Southern Weekly article — published by the CCP's Guangdong office — reported
that the year 2000 was a milestone for organ transplants in China, with liver transplants
increasing tenfold over 1999 and tripling again by 2005. WOIPFG conducted its own
analysis using internet searches and Chinese government statistics.
Hospitals: Before 1999, 19 hospitals in China performed organ transplants. By 2005,
the number exceeded 500 — a more than 20-fold increase.
Liver transplants: Total liver transplants for the twenty years prior to 1999 numbered
only 135. From 1991 to 1998 specifically, only 78 were performed. From 1999 to 2006:
14,853.
International organ tourism to China surged in parallel. South Korean patients traveling to
China for transplants went from single digits before 2002 to approximately 1,000 per year. A
Korean director at a Beijing transplant center reported 70–80 Korean patients per month in

major hospitals alone. Patients from Japan, Malaysia, India, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United
States, and Canada also traveled to China for transplants.
Debunking Official Organ Sources
Between late 2005 and early 2006, three CCP officials gave three contradictory accounts of
organ sources: Deputy Health Minister Huang Jiefu told the WHO that organs mostly came
from death row inmates; the Foreign Ministry spokesperson then called death-row use "very
rare"; the Health Ministry spokesperson then claimed organs came from voluntary citizen
donation.
The death-row explanation is quantitatively impossible. Since 2007, all death sentences
require Supreme People's Court approval. According to the Court's own website, only 165
death sentences were carried out between July 2013 and September 2014 — against an
acknowledged transplant volume of roughly 10,000 per year.
Voluntary donation is equally inadequate. In 2015, the CCP announced it would rely solely
on voluntary donations. WOIPFG investigated by calling Red Cross donation agencies in
Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, and other cities in December 2015. Rates were negligible.
Nanjing, one of the first ten pilot cities for organ donation since 2011, had received zero
voluntary donations; only three people had donated organs in the preceding twenty years.
Waiting Times and Emergency Transplants
Shanghai Changzheng Hospital's transplant application form listed an average liver waiting
time of one week. Tianjin's First Central Hospital — self-described as Asia's largest
transplant center — reported an average wait of two weeks and 533 liver transplants in 2005.
WOIPFG phone calls to hospitals in 2015 confirmed one- to two-week waiting times. By
comparison, the United States — with 120 million registered donors — reported average

waits of two to three years. Former Vice President Cheney waited nearly two years for a
heart.
Emergency transplants: China's liver transplant registry for April 2005 through
December 2006, covering 8,486 cases across 29 centers, classified 4,331 cases by
urgency. Of these, 1,150 — 26.6% — were emergency transplants completed within 72
hours. Changzheng Hospital performed 120 emergency liver transplants in three years,
with the fastest completed four hours after admission. Such speed is only possible with
a supply of living donors who can be killed on demand.
Eyewitness Testimony
In 2009, a former armed policeman from Liaoning Province provided a firsthand account of
guarding the operating room door on April 9, 2002, while surgeons harvested organs from a
living female Falun Gong practitioner. The experience devastated him — he suffered
insomnia and depression for years, and his superiors removed him from duty. He asked
WOIPFG to release the full recording only after his death; partial details were published in
the interim. As of the documentary, he was believed to still be alive.
Wang characterized the practice not as organ trafficking but as a continuation of the torture
of Falun Gong practitioners — a crime against humanity.
Investigating the Chain of Command
Doctors had identified organs' institutional sources as prisons, courts, 610 Offices, Political
and Legal Affairs Commissions, and the military. WOIPFG shifted tactics, posing as CCP
leadership secretaries and national security officials to investigate these entities directly.

The CCP's Political and Legal Affairs Commission oversees China's entire judicial and
security apparatus. In June 1999, it established the 610 Office specifically to suppress Falun
Gong. Through a series of phone calls in 2012–2015, investigators traced the chain of
command:
Tang Junjie, former Vice Chairman of the Liaoning Provincial Political and Legal Affairs
Commission, confirmed provincial-level responsibility in April 2012. Li Changchun, a
Politburo Standing Committee member, confirmed in a separate call that Zhou Yongkang —
then chairman of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission — was in charge
nationally. A Liaoning intermediate court staff member corroborated court system
involvement. Former Defense Minister Liang Guanglie and former military health official
Bai Shuzhong were also contacted, establishing military involvement and top-level
awareness.
Politburo Standing Committee confirmation: In June 2015, investigators reached
Zhang Gaoli — a sitting Politburo Standing Committee member and Vice Premier —
by phone during a trip to Kazakhstan. Posing as an aide to Jiang Zemin, they described
accusations that Jiang had ordered forced organ harvesting from millions of Falun
Gong practitioners and asked Zhang to prevent investigation at Standing Committee
meetings. Zhang agreed without objection or hesitation.
International Recognition and Ongoing Atrocity
In June 2016, David Kilgour, Ethan Gutmann, and David Matas released an updated report at
the U.S. National Press Club estimating 60,000 to 100,000 transplants per year and a
potential total of 1.5 million since 2000. Days earlier, the U.S. House passed H.Res. 343,
calling on the CCP to stop forced organ harvesting — the first explicit U.S. government
acknowledgment of the practice's existence, scale, and state-sanctioned nature. Israel and
Taiwan passed laws prohibiting organ transplant tourism to China.

The documentary also documents the 2016 case of Gao Yishi, a Falun Gong practitioner in
Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province, who was illegally arrested on April 19, 2016 and
found dead by April 30 without his family being notified. Zhu Jian, section chief of the local
610 Office, admitted in a phone interview that Gao's organs had been taken and sold.
Final Warning
Condemnations and protests alone are insufficient to stop the killing machine. Once
operational at this scale and driven by enormous financial incentives, the system will
not remain confined to its original target — it can kill anyone.