PureInsight | November 21, 2025
[PureInsight.org] A nurse named Zhang Yu, who worked for ten years at a major hospital in China, recently spoke with The Epoch Times, exposing the dark profit chain operating within large Chinese hospitals under the protection of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). She revealed that doctors freely harvest organs from patients, and although everyone involved knows it is illegal, the practice continues openly. Zhang lamented, “Under the CCP system, morality has completely collapsed.”
Before leaving China, Zhang Yu was a nurse at a top-tier (Class-A) hospital in Wuhan. She disclosed that in Chinese hospitals, the harvesting of patients’ organs is an open secret — everyone knows about it. She added that large hospitals such as Xiangya Hospital in Hunan Province are “often rumored to be involved in live organ harvesting,” and that behind these acts is not the work of a few rogue doctors, but “a complete, high-level industrial chain,” with participation from hospital presidents, department directors, chief surgeons, and the operating staff.
In May 2024, Luo Shuaiyu, a trainee doctor in the Transplant Department at the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University in Hunan, died mysteriously after falling from a building — a case suspected to be linked to the dark organ transplant trade. Reports say that before his death, he had refused an order to find 12 child donors for transplant and research purposes.
Zhang Yu stated bluntly, “Such things are impossible for a single doctor to accomplish.”
The Medical Chain of Live Organ Harvesting: From Blood Tests to Organ Transport
Zhang Yu told The Epoch Times that during casual conversations among nurses and doctors, they would often talk about patients’ organs harvesting. She said this had become an open secret in hospitals, though patients themselves had no idea.
According to Zhang’s account, when patients undergo routine hospital tests — such as blood tests — their blood samples are often sent elsewhere for tissue matching. The patients “have no idea where their samples are sent.” Once a successful match is found, “a profit chain is activated”: someone pays for the organ, and doctors then “remove it under the pretense of medical treatment.”
Zhang gave examples: doctors would tell a patient, “You have hydronephrosis” or “Your kidney has a problem,” then suggest surgery by saying, “You have two kidneys; removing one won’t affect your life.” For the liver, doctors would claim, “This part is diseased — we can cut it out, and it will grow back,” reassuring the patient that “as long as you avoid alcohol, you’ll be fine.”
She explained, “The medical reports are issued by the hospital, and ordinary people can’t understand them. When doctors confirm the report, they can manipulate it and write that you have a disease that needs surgery — you have no way to verify it.”
Secret Operating Room Channels and Organ Transport
Zhang revealed that during surgery, patients are fully anesthetized and completely unaware. After the organs are removed, they are immediately placed into special containers “kept at a controlled temperature” and then transported away. Family members cannot witness the surgery and “cannot obtain any surgical videos,” as hospitals never provide them.
She further disclosed that most large hospitals have multiple entrances — “doctor entrance, patient entrance, waste transport tunnels, and sterile corridors.” “You might think everyone enters and exits through the same door,” she said, “but inside there are many hidden routes connecting different floors — organs can be moved at any time.”
While these designs are officially meant to prevent families from obstructing medical staff, they also make it possible for “organs to be secretly transported through any passage.”
Even more shocking, Zhang said that major hospitals such as Xiangya Hospital “are even equipped with helicopters.” She said, “Sometimes, while the patient is still on the operating table, the kidney has already been flown away by helicopter.”
Zhang admitted that at the time she “had already become numb” to such things, believing that “under the CCP system, human nature has really gone rotten.”
The CCP’s Forced Organ Harvesting — From Falun Gong Practitioners to Ordinary Citizens
In August last year, Falun Gong practitioner Cheng Peiming, who fled from Heilongjiang Province to the United States, recounted at a Washington, D.C. press conference his experience of having his organs forcibly removed by the CCP.
Cheng began practicing Falun Gong in 1998. In December 2001, he was illegally sentenced to eight years in prison. On April 1, 2002, he was detained at Harbin Prison in Heilongjiang Province; on July 1, 2004, he was transferred to Daqing Prison.
He said that in November 2004, he was subjected to an organ transplant surgery, leaving a 35-centimeter scar on his left side and causing excruciating pain — “worse than death.” In 2006, he was again sent to the hospital by prison authorities and faced another forced surgery. Realizing this time they intended to kill him, he managed to escape. After arriving in the U.S. in 2020, a medical examination revealed that the left portions of his liver and lung had been partially removed.
According to the international investigative group World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), since 1999 the CCP has carried out a nationwide campaign persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. Immediately after the persecution began, the number of organ transplants in China skyrocketed.
In June 2019, the China Tribunal in London, after a thorough independent investigation, concluded that Falun Gong practitioners were the main victims of forced organ harvesting in China. Over time, the targeted groups have reportedly expanded beyond Falun Gong practitioners.
Recently, a woman named Zhang Qi, who claims to have survived forced organ harvesting, and her mother Du Tingxiang, protested outside the Chinese Embassy in Duisburg, Germany during a Chinese Culture Festival, holding posters and exposing the crime of live organ harvesting. They shouted: “Xi Jinping, give me back my entire left lung!” “I didn’t give birth to my child so you could harvest our organs!”
Zhang Qi said that at the Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, a doctor named Cui Guanghui deceived her into undergoing a surgery in which her entire left lung was removed. She was even told to purchase another person’s organ for transplantation. After undergoing more than 20 surgeries, her body was left permanently damaged. She and her mother repeatedly petitioned for justice but were severely persecuted and eventually fled overseas.
Online searches show that many Chinese social media users have recently posted complaints about forced organ harvesting, though The Epoch Times has been unable to independently verify these cases.
“I escaped from a live organ harvesting hospital in Shanghai!” — a Chinese man pleaded for help on Douyin (TikTok China) before his account was deleted.
In Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, a man shouted outside the Second Affiliated Hospital that his organs were stolen during surgery — he only discovered it afterward during a medical exam.
In Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, a man yelled outside Hong Kong University’s Shenzhen Hospital, “This hospital removed five healthy organs from my wife — no one was punished. They overdosed her during surgery and turned her into a vegetative state.”
A 28-year-old man who underwent hemorrhoid surgery allegedly had an organ stolen, and he died on June 28, 2025. His grieving relatives placed funeral wreaths at the hospital’s entrance in protest.
From Secret to Public: “Organ Donation” Ads Spread Everywhere
On October 3, the Rotary Club of Washington, D.C. hosted a screening of the award-winning documentary State Organs. The film tells the stories of two Chinese families who spent more than twenty years searching for their missing loved ones—only to discover that the disappearances were linked to a state-backed live organ harvesting program. The victims represent a significant portion of China’s population.
After the screening, Andreas Weber, Deputy Director of the European branch of Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH), stated that it is estimated the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) carries out between 60,000 and 90,000 transplant operations every year, meaning that, on average, one person is killed every 30 minutes for their organs.
In her interview, Zhang Yu said, “I had never seen any organ donation advertisements before,” but later, in Wuhan’s subways and on buses, “they were everywhere—full of organ donation ads.”
The CCP officially implemented the Regulations on Human Organ Donation and Transplantation on May 1, 2024. Compared with the Regulations on Human Organ Transplantation of 2007, the new version added the word “donation” to its title and claimed that “the state will establish a system for organ donation and transplantation, promoting voluntary human organ donation.”
Zhang remarked with a sigh, “The Communist Party no longer wants to keep this under the table—it’s putting it right on the table now. This is truly dark.”
She added that when Xi Jinping said during this year’s “September 3rd Military Parade” that “people can live to be 150 years old,” it made her suspect that this remark was connected to the booming organ industry.
On October 1, the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) released its latest report, stating that behind China’s organ transplant system lies a vast “live organ harvesting industrial chain.” The live organ banks not only include large numbers of adult Falun Gong practitioners but in recent years have expanded to include infants and young children.
WOIPFG further noted that the CCP’s infant organ transplantation programs are primarily led by military hospitals, closely tied to high-level “life-extension projects” among China’s political elites.
Disappearing College Students and a Climate of Fear
Zhang Yu also spoke about the frequent disappearances of university students in the Wuhan area. She said that near the Guanggu Square district—where there are more than 30 to 40 universities—students often go missing: “Some get into an unlicensed car and never come back.”
When parents protest at the schools, the administration merely says, “The surveillance cameras show the student leaving campus, but they never returned.” Rumors have circulated that some of these disappearances are linked to organ harvesting or pyramid schemes.
She said, “Maybe some of these rumors are hard to verify, but in China, if people are talking about it, it’s probably 80% true—because that society is completely rotten.”
Zhang stated bluntly that under such a system, “the police are the mouthpiece of the Communist Party—whatever the higher-ups say, they repeat.” Even when something is true, “they won’t report it or investigate it.”
Speaking about the current state of Chinese society, Zhang sighed: “Many news stories look absurdly fake, yet they’re written so realistically—it’s terrifying.”
As WOIPFG continues releasing new reports exposing the CCP’s organ harvesting crimes, the Chinese authorities are still aggressively promoting “organ donation.” Meanwhile, extensive investigations indicate that the black market mechanisms and violent sources of organ supply behind it remain unexamined.
Zhang concluded with a heavy tone: “I’m truly grateful that I escaped from China. Otherwise, I don’t know if one day my child might become someone else’s ‘organ donor.’”
Chinese version: https://www.zhengjian.org/node/298949
