By Li Muzi, Vision Times
Despite the rapid expansion of surveillance cameras across China, mysterious disappearances of children and young adults continue to be reported nationwide. In recent years, public suspicion has increasingly focused on allegations of state-linked organ harvesting. On Dec. 28, videos circulating online showed large numbers of families in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, holding placards in a busy commercial area as they searched for missing relatives.
According to posts shared on social media, families of missing children gathered near Kaiyuan Temple on West Street in Quanzhou, holding placards with photos and information in hopes of drawing public attention and finding their loved ones.
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Videos show parents holding signs above their heads, wearing them on their chests or backs, or propping them on the ground, quietly pleading for passersby to notice. The scene struck many viewers as heartbreaking.
Could the disappearances be linked to organ harvesting?
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“When an incompetent government can no longer grow the economy, there’s only one option left — selling people,” wrote one netizen. “Those who vanish won’t be found. This is industrial behavior.”
Others added:
- “Cameras are everywhere; stability control happens in seconds. But when children go missing, parents can only beg with signs.”
- “Tragic, pitiful, and lamentable—a nation where organs are state-owned meets a grim fate.”
- “A human-mine country in a tragic world.”
One netizen with the handle “ran ran 3,” wrote: “Every year, millions of people go missing in China. They are never seen alive, never found dead! Where are they? The CCP has long stopped at selling Chinese organs domestically. It has formed a mature industrial chain, treating living Chinese people as commodities, shipping them abroad on naval vessels and submarines! There has even emerged an unprecedented evil in human history — an oversupply of organs! The CCP’s existence defies heaven and earth! Overthrowing the CCP cannot wait!”
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A growing trend
On China’s video platform Bilibili, creators have recently uploaded large numbers of urgent missing-person appeals. According to a Taiwanese media tally, one single account has posted nearly 300 missing-person notices since August, spanning more than 20 provinces.
The missing individuals are predominantly teenagers and young adults in their 20s and 30s, many of whom reportedly vanished suddenly, on commutes to work or school, or after stepping out briefly.
Several vloggers voiced alarm. One female creator said: “Recently, universities have again begun encouraging students to donate blood — some using course credits as incentives, some even linking it to graduation.” Meanwhile, a vlogger warned: “Don’t be fooled by the appearance of calm. Society is in chaos right now — demons of all kinds are at work.”
Another vlogger offered an even dark metaphor: “Helicopters deliver spare parts (organs) to the installation department (hospitals), then to the workshop to replace parts (organs) and restart an old machine (CCP elites). I used to watch this with reverence — now it gives me chills.”
He further cautioned families: “If you’ve got a ‘small car’ (a child) at home, winter break is coming—guard your ‘small car’ (organs) carefully!”
A public crisis
As reports of missing children continue, some netizens have linked the issue to allegations of live organ harvesting. Recently, multiple mainland bloggers posted calls to “search the entire internet for children raised in China’s 622 orphanages.” Comment sections were filled with replies saying no one had seen them, deepening public unease. One netizen noted: “I’ve noticed something else — there are no homeless people anymore.”
Others added:
- “People born in the 1960s don’t see them anymore. Even people with disabilities have vanished from the streets.”
- “There are no beggars anymore.”
- “They’ve been dismantled and sold for parts.”
- “Finally someone is paying attention to orphanage children; this is truly terrifying.”
Official data not adding up
Publicly available data show that as of September 2024, China had 925 registered child welfare and protection institutions, with 158,000 orphans nationwide. In September 2024, Chinese authorities announced changes to cross-border adoption policies, stating that children would no longer be sent abroad for adoption.
On Sept. 13, the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) released an investigative report titled “Tracking China: Behind the Surge in Organ Transplants of Children and Infants.” The report states that after former CCP leader Jiang Zemin launched the persecution targeting Falun Gong in 1999, large numbers of practitioners were subjected to live organ harvesting, forming a nationwide organ-harvesting industry chain. Other victims include prisoners of conscience including Tibetans, Uyghur Muslims, and even persecuted Christians.
According to the report, beginning in 2017, pediatric organ transplants in China surged dramatically. The number of pediatric liver transplants reportedly surpassed the U.S., ranking first in the world. With abundant (and allegedly excessive) donor supply, the report even includes “free pediatric liver transplants.”
The investigation further alleges that live organ harvesting has involved a vast range of victims, from underage children to elderly people in their 60s and 70s, many of whom were detained en masse as part of an organ-supply system.
Editorial note: Allegations cited above originate from social media commentary and investigative reports. Chinese authorities have not publicly addressed the claims.
