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From Yu Menglong to Jet Li: How China’s Anti-Aging Craze Exposes a Hidden Network of Power and Abuse

A wave of sudden “rejuvenation” among several aging Chinese celebrities has ignited alarm across China, with netizens linking their dramatic transformations to a darker ecosystem of elite anti-aging programs, organ transplants, and unexplained disappearances
Published: November 12, 2025
Chinese actor Jet Li attends the World Premiere of Disney's 'MULAN' at the Dolby Theatre on March 9, 2020 in Hollywood, California. (Image: Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney)

By Vision Times TV

Independent commentator Edward Wenming has released a bombshell account alleging a disturbing link between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the entertainment industry, elite medical programs, and rumors of organ harvesting.

His remarks follow the still-unfolding scandal surrounding Chinese actor Yu Menglong, whose death continues to expose what he calls “the darkest corners” of China’s entertainment and political systems. Yu Menglong’s case, said Wenming, “has illuminated every corner of the entertainment world under CCP control,” making clear that no one escapes the system.

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He describes a hierarchy in which:

  • “Bloodthirsty elites” sit at the top,
  • Beneath them, capital interests and criminal networks “squeeze stars like Yu Menglong and Qiao Renliang dry,”
  • And at the bottom are the beneficiaries who “live comfortably off the system.”

Sudden transformations that don’t track

Social media in China is now filled with videos showing Jet Li acting “like a child — jumping, skipping, almost hyperactive.” Online commenters claim he carries not only “Qiu Feng’s heart” but “two organs from two young girls — one quiet, one rebellious.”

The dramatic shift is fueling speculation:

  • Once frail and reportedly near wheelchair-bound, Jet Li now appears energetic and rejuvenated.
  • Sammo Hung, long reliant on a wheelchair, is suddenly walking and even practicing tai chi.
  • Ni Ping, once visibly fragile and in need of assistance, is now hiking Lushan Mountain and insisting she climbed it herself.

Their collective “rejuvenation” has fueled widespread fears that the treatments may have involved unwilling donors.

Organ transplants, blood replacement, missing children

Chinese netizens overwhelmingly tie these transformations to organ harvesting. One user based in Sichuan warned, “Everyone in mainland China is an organ supplier. Watch your children carefully — never take your eyes off them.”

Other commenters connect the phenomenon to China’s rising number of missing persons, state incentives for childbirth, and rumored “human resource pipelines.”

One viral video claims that CCP elites are extending their lives using “extracellular vesicles” found only in the blood of 17–21-year-old males. A single treatment may cost between 1.5 million yuan to over 100 million yuan, requiring the blood of several young men. Users are now asking:

  • Where is all this blood coming from?
  • Is it voluntary donation — or something far more sinister?

China’s recent surge in school “blood collection drives” has only intensified fear. Critics warn that when human bodies become “resources” in a profit-driven chain, laboratories and capital interests gain incentives to exploit them under a veneer of legality.

An explosion of missing persons

Overseas data platforms report 107 disappearances in just 22 days this past October, many of them children — the youngest being just five years old. Human rights lawyers point out that China has over 700 million surveillance cameras, yet the state claims it cannot locate these missing individuals.

Insiders allege:

  • Teenagers are targeted first because their organs are “the healthiest and most valuable.”
  • The crimes are systematic and state-backed.

Dr. Wang Zhiyuan, chairman of the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong, has stated that the CCP’s organ harvesting apparatus began in the early 2000s and has since expanded “across all of society, even to infants.”

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A system built on fear and blood

Wenming’s analysis concludes with a chilling historical account from Cultural Revolution scholar Fang Yingzhu, who described “killing competitions” inside elite schools for children of high-ranking CCP officials. He recalls a conversation with a 15-year-old student during the Cultural Revolution:

  • The boy asked him:
  • “Teacher, you were a soldier — have you ever killed anyone?”
  • Fang replied:
  • “No. I served during peacetime and later transferred to teach you.”
  • The boy responded proudly:
  • “Then you don’t compare to me. Yesterday, I killed eight inside the church.”

Fang recounts the boy casually holding a blood-soaked leather whip, describing how Red Guards:

  • Rounded up families labeled “bourgeois,”
  • Dragged them into a Catholic church near Wangfujing,
  • And beat them to death in timed competitions.

Winners were then awarded the title of “champion.” The most frequent “champions,” Fang writes, were girls, including one of his favorite, shy, academically gifted students.

  • The boy also told him that among the victims was “a five- or six-year-old girl,” asking:
  • “She’s so little — how can she be a bourgeoisie?”
  • Fang admits:
  • “I, the teacher, had no answer.”

Wenming concludes that the CCP’s brutality is not new — it is “in its bones.” From the Cultural Revolution’s normalized violence and widespread oppression to today’s alleged organ-harvesting networks, he argues that a consistent logic runs through the system:

  • The powerful consume the powerless.
  • The wealthy extend their lives at the expense of the vulnerable.
  • And the state machine protects those at the top; not the people.

Editorial note: Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Vision Times.