An underground operating room inside a Zhengzhou bathhouse
A shocking video circulating on Chinese social media platforms shows what appears to be a fully equipped kidney transplant operating room hidden inside a bathhouse in Zhengzhou, Henan Province. According to the footage and undercover reporting by a mainland journalist, the operation was run by human traffickers, while the transplant surgeon was allegedly a department director from a “Grade A, Class III” hospital—the highest tier in China’s public hospital system.
The revelations ignited widespread outrage online. Many netizens stated bluntly that crimes of this scale could not exist without the protection, tolerance, or direct support of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
According to information shared across Chinese social media, the traffickers openly claimed that the operating room was designed and constructed under the personal guidance of a chief physician from a top-tier hospital. Although a mainland reporter infiltrated the operation and recorded evidence, all related reports have since been scrubbed from Chinese search engines and platforms.
‘Better than a major hospital:’ organ brokers speak openly
Footage originally published by Metropolis Daily shows a male organ broker boasting to an undercover reporter: “The operating room inside is better than those in major hospitals. We built it ourselves. A director from a top-tier hospital personally guided the construction. Some equipment hospitals don’t even have—we have it all.”
The broker explicitly acknowledged that the transplant surgeon was a senior director from a major public hospital.
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The video shows a man lying in a hospital bed, apparently having just undergone a kidney transplant. The broker assured the reporter with confidence: “You can rest easy—this is the most reliable place there is.”
The patient added casually: “It was fast. Three hours total.”
The broker explained further: “Implantation takes just over an hour. Harvesting takes longer, so altogether it’s a few hours.”
Police officers shown in the footage confirmed that the operation took place inside a bathhouse at a private club near Zhengzhou’s North Third Ring Road.
Public outrage: ‘This is impossible without CCP backing’
On Jan. 24, mainland blogger “Zui Bu Sheng Xin” wrote: “It’s reached this level of brazen criminality. Getting a kidney cut out now feels as easy as eating instant noodles. Is no one going to put pressure on this?”
Another blogger, “Yu’er,” commented: “Everyone feels endangered, yet completely powerless. All we can do is protect ourselves and our families.”
Across social media, commenters overwhelmingly argued that the Zhengzhou case exposes not isolated criminal gangs, but systemic CCP involvement.
One netizen wrote: “Illegal transplant rooms, black-market surrogacy companies, ‘behavior correction’ schools—these all have official backgrounds. When they’re exposed, they simply relocate and change names. On paper they’re ‘private,’ but the resources they use never withstand scrutiny.”
Another stated: “Without CCP acquiescence, this would be impossible. Those close to the leadership understand the Party’s intentions. They know the CCP tolerates and supports organ harvesting. That’s why kidnappings, disappearances, human trafficking, and people being ‘declared dead’ are so rampant.”
On X (formerly Twitter), reactions were furious and unrestrained:
- “The CCP government is behind this.”
- “The Chinese Communist Party is a demon—it legalized organ transplants while ignoring mass disappearances.”
- “This is hell on earth.”
- “A country darker than organized crime.”
- “Only when the CCP demon falls will Chinese people survive.”
Heart transplants raise deeper questions
Another video recently went viral showing Zhengzhou No. 7 People’s Hospital completing 100 heart transplants over the past three years.
In the footage, Zhou Zhiming, deputy director of the hospital’s third cardiothoracic ward, stated that once doctors learned a “suitable heart” was available in southern China, a team was dispatched that same night to assess it. The heart was then “urgently obtained” and transported back in a cooler box. “We’ve completed 100 cases in the past three years,” he said.
The video sparked intense controversy, with netizens raising pointed questions:
- From whom were these hearts taken?
- How could doctors instantly know a suitable heart existed thousands of kilometers away?
- What system allows a heart to be procured within hours?
- Who were the recipients of these transplants?
‘Henan is becoming Cambodia’— but only the tip of the iceberg
Online, some users warned that “Henan is becoming Cambodia,” referencing Southeast Asian organ trafficking and scam compounds. Others argued Henan represents only the visible tip of a nationwide system.
On Jan. 8, a 13-year-old student surnamed Zhu died suddenly at Jinshi Tsinghua Garden High School in Xincai County, Henan. When the parents viewed the body, they reported blood at the mouth and a large puncture wound in the chest resembling a nail hole. Both the family and netizens questioned the official cause of death, suspecting preparation for live organ harvesting.
Authorities claimed the child died of sudden cardiac arrest and said the chest wound resulted from forensic blood sampling. The explanation triggered mass protests, which were swiftly suppressed. The child’s parents have since disappeared.
Children disappearing across Henan
Following the Xincai incident, reports of missing children surged across the province:
- Jan. 9: Du Qiuzhe, a ninth-grade student at Huibin County No. 1 Middle School, disappeared after school.
- Jan. 11: Yang Jiahao, 14, vanished outside Dewey School in Shangji Town, Xichuan County.
- Jan. 12: Wang Yichun, 13, disappeared on his way to school in Heilong Town, Zhumadian.
- Jan. 12: Xu Mengyao, 14, vanished while commuting to school in Dancheng County.
Some netizens speculated these children may have been targeted as “backup options” after the Xincai case drew attention.
‘Closed industrial parks are spreading nationwide’
Multiple mainland Douyin (TikTok China) creators warned that sealed industrial parks are rapidly appearing across China:
- “Closed factories are popping up everywhere.”
- “Cambodia’s KK Park has moved back into China.”
- “Myanmar’s ‘life science institutes’ have returned.”
- “Soon there will be many sealed industrial zones—those who understand, understand.”
- “Many parks are being fenced off. Protect your children.”
Investigators: forced organ harvesting is a nationwide crime
Wang Zhiyuan, head of the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), told Vision Times that decades of investigation show that since late 1999, the CCP has implemented a policy of large-scale forced live organ harvesting targeting tens of millions of Falun Gong practitioners.
“This is not rumor,” Wang said. “It is a conclusion based on extensive evidence.”
He emphasized that what Falun Gong practitioners have testified to for more than 20 years is now being reflected in events across Chinese society.
“People are seeing with their own eyes that this is real,” he said, warning that forced organ harvesting has expanded beyond Falun Gong to the general population. He called on the public to remain vigilant and to act together to stop what he described as a crime against humanity.
