Chen Jianghua

WOIPFG’s Investigative Report on the Alleged Organ Harvesting of Living Falun Gong Practitioners by Chen Jianghua, Director of Kidney Disease Center, Zhejiang University Affiliated First Hospital

Feb 13, 2025

Chen Jianghua, male, born in April, 1958. Chen is deputy secretary of the hospital’s Communist Party Committee, director of the Kidney Disease Center, professor and chief surgeon. He is also deputy director level member and secretary general of the Management Committee of the Chinese Scientific Registry of Kidney Transplantation (CSRKT) under the Ministry of Health, and deputy director level member of the Chinese Medical Association’s Organ Transplantation Branch.

He studied at Zhejiang Medical University from 1977 to 1980. After graduation, he was engaging in the clinical work of treating kidney diseases. From 1986 to 1989, he studied at Tianjin Medical College and graduated with a master’s degree.

He has long been engaged in clinical medical treatment, teaching and scientific research of nephrology and organ transplantation. He was the first to create an integrated kidney disease treatment model in China and established one of China’s largest kidney disease treatment centers. He is skilled in kidney transplantation and diagnosis and treatment of multiple organ combined transplantation.[1]

The Kidney Disease Center is headed by Chen Jianghua. It has 120 beds. The Kidney Transplant ward area (the seventh floor in District B of Building 6) has 40 beds, among which there are 16 beds in 10,000-level laminar flow wards. This center is one of the largest kidney transplant centers in China.[2] According to statistics, as of November 2008, the center had performed 2,519 kidney transplants in total, with an annual average of 200 to 250 kidney transplants.[3] As of March 8, 2017, Zhejiang University First Hospital had completed 5,000 kidney transplants, a number that ranks among the top in the country. The quality of kidney transplant data from 2011 to 2016 ranked first in the country.[4] On March 24, 2014, the report "Amazing! Zhejiang University First Hospital completed 14 major organ transplants in 48 hours" published on the homepage of Sohu stated that the hospital, led by President Wang Weilin, who performed liver transplants, completed 14 major organ transplants in less than 48 hours from yesterday to today, including one heart transplant, one lung transplant, four liver transplants, and eight kidney transplants, setting a new record for organ transplants at the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine.[5]

Investigation calls: donor source, transplant volume, short waiting time, few donations

1. Donor sources:

“I remember there were 30 (kidneys) one day[6]!”

Investigation Respondent: Nurse with Kidney Transplant Ward, Zhejiang University First Hospital

Investigation Date: May 8, 2015 (Phone number: +86 57187236871)

Investigation Content:

Investigator: I know you did more than 300 kidney transplants last year. How many of them used donated organs?

Nurse: Yes, the frequency of donations is quite high this year. Just one or two each time. If it is donated, it is impossible to donate in batches, right? For example, there are batches those who were executed, so it is fast.

Investigator: Where did the batches of donors come from?

Nurse: Those who were executed. In 2006, I remember there were 30 in one day. There were more than a dozen people who were executed, and there were 30 kidneys! Not now, it was at the end of 2006.

(Recording 1. Download: MP3; for complete recording transcript please see Addendum 1)

OPO is responsible for getting kidney donations, they go to the ICU and the emergency room.

Investigation Respondent: Ward nurse at the Kidney Transplant Center of Zhejiang University First Hospital

Investigation Date: August 1, 2017 (+86-57187236871)

Summary: We do a lot of kidney transplants! On average, we do 300 to 400 cases per month, and 400 to 500 cases per year. If we have to wait for kidney donations, it will take a long time, at least 5 years! Why are there so many donors? We have an OPO office that is specifically responsible for getting kidney donations, in the ICU and the emergency room.

(Recording 2 Download MP3, for complete recording transcript please see Addendum 2)

2. Large number of kidney transplants

Director Wu Jianyong: We are now ranked first or second in the country in terms of the number of transplants we do every year![7]

Investigation Respondent: Wu Jianyong, Director of the Kidney Disease Center

Investigation Date: February 10, 2016 (+86-13906523095)

Summary: We are doing a lot, so more patients come. …We are now ranked first or second in the country in terms of the number of transplants we do every year.

(Recording 3 Download MP3, for complete recording transcript please see Addendum 4)

The beds are in short supply. If everything goes well, the patient can be discharged in one week. The stitches are removed in the outpatient clinic.[8]

Investigation Respondent: Dr. Xie Wenqing, dispatcher of the kidney transplant center

Investigation Date: December 27, 2016 (+86-57187236871)

Summary: Kidney transplants are being performed. This year, about 300 cases have been performed. There are 50 beds in this ward. The beds are in short supply. For hospital stay, if everything goes well, the patient can be discharged in one week. The stitches are removed in the outpatient clinic.

(Recording 4 Download: MP3, for complete recording transcript please see Addendum 5)

We do a lot of kidney transplants, about 400 to 500 cases a year[9]

Investigation Respondent: Kidney Transplant Center, Zhejiang University First Hospital.

Investigation Date: February 21, 2019 (+86-57187236871)

Summary: We do a lot of kidney transplants, about 400 to 500 cases a year. Please ask Dr. Xie for details.

( Recording 5 Download: MP3; for complete recording transcript please see Addendum 6)

"Kidney transplantation has been separated from the urology department, and a kidney center has been established.[10]"

Investigation Respondent: Chen Zhaodian, dialysis doctor of the urology department of Zhejiang University First Hospital

Investigation Date: February 11, 2016 (+86+ 13905812852)

Summary: Kidney transplantation has been separated from the urology department. They were asked to set up a kidney center to specialize in kidney transplantation. Wu Jianyong is the director of the kidney center. He is definitely doing it. I'll give you a phone number. (Wu Jianyong: 139 0652 3095)

( Recording 6 Download: MP3; for complete recording transcript please see Addendum 7)

3. Small number of organ donations

Investigation Respondent: Person in charge of the Organ Donation Management Center of the Zhejiang Red Cross Society[11]

Investigation Date: April 20, 2017 (+86 57185043999)

Summary: Not many people donate organs! In 2016, there were more than 100 organ donations in the province, and some of them could not be used!

(Recording 7 Download: MP3; transcript download:186-1)

Investigation Respondent: Zhejiang Red Cross Society_Organ Donation Management Center_Duty staff[12]

Investigation Date: December 15, 2016 (+86 571-85043999)

Summary: Most people refuse to donate. If they don’t refuse, it’s impossible that the donations are so few!

(Recording 8 Download: MP3, transcript download: Addendum 186-2)

Investigation Respondent: Nurses with Kidney Transplant Ward, Zhejiang University Affiliated First Hospital[13]

Investigation Date: August 1, 2017 (+86 57187236871)