By Li Muzi, Vision Times
Allegations that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has forcibly harvested organs from Falun Gong practitioners and other prisoners of conscience continue to surface with disturbing new details. In a recent interview, exiled Shanghai entrepreneur Hu Liren said the practice began more than two decades ago and was already systematized in Shanghai, complete with “pre-booking” groups, hospitals running daily transplant schedules, and special wards catering to foreign recipients.
Speaking to the independent media program “Weiyu Looks at the World,” Hu described how multiple Shanghai hospitals maintained steady organ supplies, largely sourced from Falun Gong practitioners, long before China acknowledged any formal donation system.
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Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a meditation practice rooted in the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance. Despite being peaceful in nature, the CCP has launched a brutal campaign to eradicate the practice since 1999. Thousands have since perished at the hands of Chinese police, with many adherents today still undergoing routine monitoring, arbitrary travel bans, and arrests.
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Hu said that in 2000, while running internet companies in Shanghai, he hired a senior editor formerly with “Jiefang Daily” and “Wenhui Daily,” who told him: “In China, everything you see in Communist Party propaganda, you can only understand it by reading it in reverse.”
Hu added that public understanding of Falun Gong had long been distorted. Recalling a 1999 job interview, he said a female candidate (a literature PhD) told him her entire family practiced Falun Gong and that her father had already been detained.
“At the time, I didn’t realize the persecution was that severe,” Hu said. “By 2003, through a prison administrator in Shanghai, I learned about live organ harvesting — organ transplants using Falun Gong practitioners. I was among the earliest to know.”
Shanghai ran organ ‘pre-booking’ programs
Hu recounted a personal experience at Zhongshan Hospital, where his father was hospitalized. A fellow patient told Hu he was “waiting for an organ source.” “When I asked him ‘You can really wait for this? Who gives you the liver?’” Hu recalled. The man replied: “We have a QQ group.” (At the time, WeChat did not exist.) “Everyone in Shanghai waiting for organs is in it.”
According to Hu, the patient said: “Zhongshan Hospital does about two to three internal-organ transplants every day.” When Hu asked where the organs came from, the answer was blunt: “You don’t know? They’re all from people who practice qigong.” Hu emphasized: “He specifically said Falun Gong practitioners.”
Hu said he personally witnessed refrigerated portable cases being delivered daily to operating rooms. “Once a match is found, you’re notified immediately. Patients stay hospitalized, ready to go straight into surgery. It was terrifying.”
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At a later dinner, Hu said he questioned a Shanghai prison administrator about detainees who practiced Falun Gong. “He said yes, many.” Hu then asked whether their organs were being used. “He said, ‘How do you know?’” The man identified himself as working at Qingpu Prison. “That confirmed it for me,” Hu said. “Hospitals had already made it clear these were practitioners.”
He also recounted a case involving a Shanghai family (husband, wife, and child) who all practiced Falun Gong and “disappeared” after being detained in 1999. The husband, Zhao Jun, was an electrical engineer; the wife, Xu Meiqi, headed a hospital inspection department. “They vanished more than 20 years ago. There has been no news from them since.”
Hospitals built for foreign recipients
Hu said major Shanghai hospitals, including Ruijin Hospital, Huashan Hospital, and Zhongshan, maintained separate buildings or floors for international patients, commonly called “Overseas Chinese Buildings” or “VIP/Foreign Guest Wards.”
“These rooms cost around 1,000–2,000 yuan per day and are nothing like ordinary wards,” Hu said. “They’re doing international business.” He compared China’s organ transplant system with the United States, where organ matches usually take at least five to eight years. “In China, it can take one or two weeks. That’s why the international community is suspicious — and rightly so. This is all very real.”
The program’s host noted rising reports of missing children, unexplained blood testing in schools, sudden cardiac deaths among students, and abductions — creating widespread anxiety among parents. “When Falun Gong first spoke about live organ harvesting, many people didn’t believe it. Now everyone feels at risk.”
“I used to think Falun Gong exaggerated. Now I believe them. I’m sorry. The CCP is capable of any evil,” wrote one user, while another noted: “Whole families disappear. Hospitals profit without restraint. This is truly horrifying.”
According to years of investigations by the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong, China’s organ transplant volume surged after the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999, with a vast number of hospitals and physicians implicated.
Recently, the organization’s head Wang Zhiyuan told Vision Times that signs indicate forced organ harvesting is expanding to the general population. “When [the number of] Falun Gong organs is no longer sufficient, they will inevitably reach into society at large,” he warned, urging the public to remain vigilant and help stop what he called “a crime against humanity.”
