Editor’s Note: This article is based on publicly circulated videos, online posts, commentary by Chinese netizens, and reports from overseas Chinese-language media. Allegations involving human trafficking, organ harvesting, and related crimes have not been independently verified and are presented as claims made by the whistleblower and online commentators.
By Li Muzi
A video posted by a man from Guangzhou making a real-name whistleblower accusation has spread widely across Chinese social media platforms, drawing intense public attention. In the video, the man alleges that a criminal network operating in Guangdong has been involved in human trafficking and organ harvesting, with more than 100 people allegedly victimized.
Some online commenters went further, asserting that what the whistleblower described as a “major human trafficking organization” was, in effect, the Chinese Communist Party authorities themselves.
On January 21, political commentator Chen Weiyu released a video stating that new evidence had emerged pointing to human trafficking and organ harvesting in mainland China. According to Chen, a Guangzhou resident identified as Zhang Yijun publicly filed a real-name accusation against what he called a “major criminal organization in Guangdong.”
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Zhang named several families in his accusation, including the Wu Yuwen family, the Zhang Yongsan family, and the Zhang Nengjun family. He alleged that these families had engaged in human trafficking for more than 20 years, selling victims overseas for scam operations, and that more than 100 people had been subjected to organ harvesting.
In the video, Zhang said that members of the Wu Yuwen family had sold his former girlfriend, former colleagues, and numerous friends, and had attempted to sell him multiple times.
“Because I didn’t fall for it, they wanted to silence me,” Zhang said. “My hometown’s Zhang Yongsan family has been trafficking people in Guangzhou. The case broke more than a decade ago, and they’ve been hiding in our hometown ever since.”
Zhang further alleged that the criminal group was involved not only in human trafficking but also in intentional homicide, drug trafficking, coercing women into prostitution, and organizing prostitution rings.
“All the materials I have provided are real,” he said in the video. “If any of it is false, I am willing to bear all legal responsibility. Whistleblower: Zhang Yijun.”
Zhang explained that he chose to come forward publicly because he believed his life was in danger.
“They’ve driven me to a dead end,” he said. “If I don’t expose them, I will die.”
He rejected accusations that his claims were fabricated, asking why those he reported had not contacted police after being named.
“Because it’s all true,” Zhang said, claiming the number of victims was “at least in the hundreds.”
He also alleged that those he accused had pressured his landlord by threatening demolition in an attempt to force him out, and said that because the alleged crimes occurred in Guangzhou, leaving the city would mean the case would be quietly dropped.
“They’ve killed several of my relatives and friends,” Zhang said. “They forced my friend into prostitution. Even if I sleep on the streets and eat dirt, I will keep reporting them. I can lose countless times, but as long as I win once, it’s enough. I will not stop making real-name accusations.”
The video sparked an intense backlash online, with many netizens claiming that the criminal organization Zhang described was backed by the CCP.
One commenter wrote, “ID cards, dark secrets, organ harvesting—everything is exposed. He’s not just brave, he’s a real hero.”
Another said, “Reporting is useless. The police are on the same side.”
Others alleged that human trafficking, organized prostitution, drug manufacturing and trafficking, organ harvesting, and telecom fraud constituted what they described as the CCP’s most profitable underground industries.
“These families must have direct links to Beijing,” one comment claimed.
Additional comments explicitly equated the alleged “major human trafficking organization” with the CCP itself.
“Who else but a state-controlled machine could control the entire organ transplant chain?” one user wrote. “The Communist Party is terrifying.”
Another netizen using the name “Life” wrote that reporting such crimes inside China was equivalent to suicide.
“Human trafficking and organ harvesting are 100 percent coordinated by the political-legal apparatus,” the comment claimed, describing the alleged crimes as a form of state terrorism involving multiple government departments.
A separate post by a user identified as “Three Characters at the Edge of Void” argued that in a system where power manipulates medicine and lies override facts, doctors’ scalpels had been turned into weapons.
The post referenced years of warnings by Falun Gong practitioners, who, according to the commenter, had risked arrest, torture, and death to expose allegations of organ harvesting, only to face ridicule and disbelief.
“Now the butcher’s knife has truly reached every family and every child,” the post said. “Only when the hammer strikes oneself does the pain become real.”
The issue of organ harvesting in China has long circulated as an open secret among segments of the public, fueling anger and prompting some citizens to participate in the Quit the CCP (Tuidang) Movement.
The commentary also linked the allegations to widespread reports of missing children and adults across mainland China, which some netizens described as turning CCP-controlled regions into a “living hell.”
Over the years, Chinese social media has been flooded with reports of missing persons across the country. Entering 2026, such reports have continued to surface frequently, triggering public anxiety and prompting online warnings urging people to protect themselves and their children.
Some citizens said these developments had led them to conclude that the CCP was orchestrating organ harvesting, prompting them to renounce their affiliations with CCP organizations.
According to the Global Service Center for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party, a Beijing resident identified as Li Mingyu said that after years of seeing children disappear without explanation, he now believed they had become an “organ bank” for CCP officials.
“I hereby declare my withdrawal from the Young Pioneers organization and sever all ties with the evil party,” Li said.
Wu Qiang, a resident of Jiangxi Province, said that as a medical worker he had once been proud of his profession.
“After learning that living people are having their organs forcibly harvested for profit, with medical professionals participating, my anger is beyond words,” he said. “This moral collapse is caused by an evil group. I believe heaven will destroy it, and I choose to escape in time by declaring my withdrawal from the CCP and all its affiliated organizations.”
A Heilongjiang resident identified as Zhan Qi, a distributor by profession, said that his wife’s younger brother, a Falun Gong practitioner, disappeared after the crackdown began in 1999.
“Our family has lived in endless suffering since then,” he said. “My classmates who practiced Falun Gong told me repeatedly about the CCP’s evil nature and the prophecy that ‘heaven will destroy the CCP.’ I now declare my withdrawal from the Communist Youth League and the Young Pioneers and refuse to be buried with the CCP.”
For international readers seeking background on the Quit the CCP (Tuidang) Movement, information is available on the EndCCP website.
