By Muzi Li, Vision Times
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will host the 8th China–International Organ Donation Conference (CIODC) and the “Belt and Road” International Cooperation Forum on Organ Donation and Transplantation in Guangzhou from Dec. 6–8. The announcement has triggered a wave of backlash on Chinese social media, where many users sharply denounced the event. “This kind of conference and these organizations—get out of Guangdong!” one commenter wrote.
According to The Paper, the gathering is organized under the guidance of the National Health Commission and the Red Cross Society of China. It is jointly arranged by the China Organ Transplantation Development Foundation and the China Human Organ Donation Administration Center, and hosted by the Guangdong Medical Association and Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University.
Organizers said the program includes an opening ceremony, a main forum, and eight parallel sub-forums focusing on leadership, management, cooperation, innovation, and quality control. Experts from China and abroad are expected to participate, and a “Belt and Road” joint meeting on organ donation cooperation will be held concurrently.
State media asserted that under CCP leadership, China has “gradually established a work system that aligns with global medical ethics” and that voluntary citizen donation is their sole legal source of transplant organs. CIODC has been held seven times over the past decade, drawing nearly 500 experts from more than 60 countries and regions.
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Scholars say CCP is using ‘international’ label to whitewash forced organ harvesting
Jonathan Liu, a professor of traditional Chinese medicine at a public college in Canada, told Sound of Hope that international scrutiny of China’s transplant system began soon after allegations of forced organ harvesting surfaced in 2006.
“Many developed countries no longer participate in any organ-donation conferences hosted by the CCP,” Liu said. “They use academic packaging, but the international community already knows the truth. Calling the event ‘China–International’ is simply to deceive Chinese citizens and the world—a way to whitewash their forced organ harvesting.”
Chinese-Canadian writer Sheng Xue offered a similar assessment.
“We already know the CCP’s organ harvesting—equivalent to direct killing—has existed for decades. This is fully documented,” she said.
According to Sheng, the CCP is attempting to incorporate this system into its global Belt and Road framework. “The CCP treats Chinese people as a resource pool—‘leeks,’ ‘human mines.’ Using their organs as a diplomatic entry point is beyond evil. It is unprecedented violence in human history,” she added.
Researcher: China’s ‘voluntary organ donation’ data is clearly fabricated
Following widespread allegations of forced organ harvesting in 2006, Huang Jiefu—chair of China’s Organ Transplantation Committee—acknowledged that China had relied on organs from executed prisoners. CCP authorities maintain that since 2015, voluntary citizen donation remains the exclusive legal channel for obtaining transplant organs.
However, on July 11, Matthew Robertson, a postdoctoral researcher in social data science at the University of Mannheim, told Voice of America that his research indicates China’s “voluntary donation” data is clearly falsified. His findings suggest the reported numbers do not reflect the actual source of organs.
The World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) has also reported that between 2001 and early 2006, China performed more than 90,000 organ transplants—figures that cannot be explained by voluntary donors or death-row prisoners alone. WOIPFG found that rapid matching times, expanded transplant capacity, and nationwide availability all point to the existence of a large living organ bank that emerged in China after 2000.
Public anger flares as Guangzhou conference draws online outrage
The announcement quickly touched off a torrent of online outrage across Chinese social media, reflecting deep public mistrust of the CCP’s transplant system:
- “So you’re not even pretending anymore?”
- “Soon robots will work—and the rest of us will be ‘spare parts.’”
- “Damn! It’s real!”
- “Protect your children!”
- “These organizations—get out of Guangdong!”
- “May they have no descendants!”
Overseas users on X voiced similar condemnation:
- “A conference of demons.”
- “Organ transplants and organ trafficking—China’s new pillar industry and a powerful tool for CCP influence.”
- “They dare to do this openly because global demand is huge.”
- “This regime is pure darkness—down with the CCP.”
- “Heaven will not tolerate the CCP’s crimes.”
