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WOIPFG's Investigative Report on the Alleged Organ Harvesting of Living Falun Gong Practitioners by Zhao Ming, Director of the Organ Transplantation Center at Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University
Apr 8, 2025

Summary: Zhao Ming, male, director of the Organ Transplantation Center of Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University, chief surgeon. According to the public information on the official website of Zhujiang Hospital, the hospital has "formed obvious specialized technical characteristics in the fields of organ transplantation (kidney, liver, pancreas transplantation)". Zhujiang Hospital Organ Transplantation Center is one of the important transplantation centers in China, and multiple doctors in the hospital have done a large number of kidney transplants. Telephone investigations show that the hospital does a large number of transplants, has a large number of beds, and multiple kidney transplantation teams.

In view of the broader background of the Chinese Communist Party's state crime of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners, according to the testimony of Bai Shuzhong, former Minister of Health of the General Logistics Department, the affiliated hospitals of the PLA Military Medical Universities are the main hospitals for harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners, and since Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University (formerly known as the Second Affiliated Hospital of the First Military Medical University) has been involved in the crime, Zhao Ming, the director of the hospital's Organ Transplantation Center, is a major suspect.

Zhao Ming, male, director of Organ Transplantation Center of Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University, chief surgeon, professor. Member of National Organ Transplantation Committee, standing committee member of Guangdong Province Transplantation Committee, editorial board member of many journals. Long been engaged in organ transplantation clinical diagnosis and treatment work, the end-stage renal failure diagnosis and treatment, and the kidney (including relatives living kidney transplantation), pancreas, pancreas-kidney joint, liver, islet cell transplantation, etc. [1].

Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University (formerly known as the Second Affiliated Hospital of the First Military Medical University) was recognized by the CCP military in 1994 as one of the first military tertiary level-A hospitals. It was transferred to Guangdong Province in August 2004 along with the whole First Military Medical University. According to the official website of Zhujiang Hospital, the hospital has developed distinctive specialties in the field of organ transplantation (kidney, liver and pancreas transplantation), etc[2]. On May 23, 2007, it became a hospital designated by the CCP’s Ministry of Health to carry out kidney transplantation[3]. The hospital was also ranked as Class A for kidney transplant, Class B for liver and heart transplant in Guangdong Province in 2004[4].

The hospital is the main hospital of the CCP military for organ harvesting of living Falun Gong practitioners[5].

According to the testimony of Bai Shuzhong, former Minister of Health of the General Logistics Department, the affiliated hospitals of the PLA Military Medical Universities are the main hospitals for harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners[6].

Bai Shuzhong, who served as the Minister of Health of the PLA General Logistics Department from 1998 to 2004, directly admitted in a telephone investigation conducted by WOIPFG that during his tenure, Jiang Zemin personally ordered the organ harvesting of living Falun Gong practitioners, and that the Hospitals Affiliated to the Universities of Military Medical Sciences were the main hospitals in the military system that carried out this order from Jiang Zemin[7].

Organ Transplantation Center of Zhujiang Hospital is one of the important transplantation centers in China.

According to the public data on the official website of Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University, its Organ Transplantation Center was authorized for doctoral degree for organ transplantation earlier in China, which consists of three parts of Organ Transplantation, Blood Purification Center, and Transplantation and Immunity Research Institute (including Tissue Matching laboratory). The medical area covers 2300 square meters[8]. The transplant center's webpage also shows that the Organ Transplantation Center of Zhujiang Hospital "is one of the important transplantation centers in China, with cadaveric renal transplants, kinship renal transplants, liver transplants, and pancreas-kidney combined transplants[9]."

According to the public data on the official website of Zhujiang Hospital, there are 37 staff members in the Organ Transplantation Center of Zhujiang Hospital, including 2 professors, 4 associate professors, 2 associate chief technicians, 4 lecturers, among them, there are 5 PhDs, 4 masters, 1 returnee from overseas, 2 doctoral supervisors, 2 master's supervisors[10]. Two of them, Lin Minzhuan and Li Jie, have performed thousands of transplants.

Lin Minzhuan, male, deputy chief surgeon, professor, Doctor of Medicine, has personally experienced nearly 2600 cases of kidney transplantation, 25 cases of liver transplantation, and 3 cases of combined pancreas/kidney transplantation[11].

Lin Minzhuan is currently the deputy director level member of the Organ Transplantation Branch of Guangzhou City Medical Association, the standing committee member of the Organ Transplantation Society of Guangdong Province Medical Association, a committee member of the Haizhu District of Guangzhou City of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and a member of the Editorial Board of the “Chinese Journal of Medical Practice”. He graduated from the Institute of Organ Transplantation of Tongji Medical University with a doctorate degree in medicine. He has been the deputy director, associate professor, associate chief surgeon, and master's supervisor of the Organ Transplantation Department of Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University since 1997; he has been engaged in the clinical, teaching, and scientific research of blood purification and renal transplantation for more than 20 years. He’s personally experienced nearly 2600 cases of renal transplantation, 25 cases of liver transplantation, and 3 cases of combined pancreas/kidney transplantation[12].

Li Jie is the director of urology and chief surgeon of Organ Transplantation Department, Taiping People's Hospital, Dongguan, Guangdong. He has been engaged in urology and organ transplantation for 20 years. He worked in Zhujiang Hospital, a tertiary level-A teaching hospital in Guangzhou, for more than 10 years. He participated in more than 4,000 cases of kidney transplantation, and was the chief surgeon for more than 500 cases of kidney transplantation; he participated in more than 50 cases of liver transplantation, and was the chief surgeon for 12 cases[13].

The telephone investigation shows that the hospital does a large number of transplants, has a large number of beds, and multiple kidney transplant teams.

Investigation Respondent: Zhou Song, Chief Nephrologist of Transplantation Department, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University [14]

Investigation Date: November 8, 2019 (Phone #+86-20-62782501)
Summary:

1. (Compared with Southern Hospital) Our hospital is doing well, we have more beds here, more than 60 of them. When kidney sources become available, sometimes there are so many of them.  During the National holidays we did a lot of cases! We did one hundred or two hundred of them (a year)! That can be done. Once we did more than 300 cases before, in one year.

2. Zhao Ming is our director, I am in the team led by Director Guo Ying. We have three teams in total.

3. We can only assess to see if it’s a good kidney, we can’t determine if it is a kidney from a Falun Gong patient. ...... You come over and find out, OK? You can ask someone at a higher level about it. It's better to communicate face to face, we can talk about it face to face, we can’t say much over the phone.

 (Recording 1 download: MP3; transcript download: pdf149)

 

References

[1]    Official Website of Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University, Expert profile: Zhao Ming
http://www.zjyy.com.cn/dept/expert_show.aspx?id=49&pid=132

http://archive.is/D64sB

[2]    Official Website of Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University, Hospital Introduction

http://www.zjyy.com.cn/about/Introduction.htmls

WOIPFG Archived Link:

http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/sites/default/files/report/2016/64700_06390…

[3]Website of the National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China, "Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Health on the Registration of Diagnosis and Treatment Subjects for Human Organ Transplantation. Annex 1. List of the First Batch of Hospitals that Passed the Audit of the Committee on Clinical Application of Human Organ Transplantation Technology of the Ministry of Health". August 06, 2007.

http://www.moh.gov.cn/mohyzs/s3585/200804/18974.shtml 

WOIPFG Archived Link:

http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/cn/images/nationalcriminalreports/400.png

[4]    Website of Medical Association of Foshan City, Guangdong Medical Association on the results of the quality assessment of kidney transplantation, liver transplantation and heart transplantation in various hospitals. April 2, 2004.

http://www.fsma.org.cn/UploadFiles/2004-04-02-01.asp 

WOIPFG Archived Link:

http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/cn/images/nationalcriminalreports/392.png 

[5]WOIPFG Obtained New Evidence: Jiang Zemin Ordered the Harvesting of Organs from Falun Gong Practitioners for Transplantation. September 30, 2014.
http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/node/44818 (Chinese Version)
https://www.upholdjustice.org/node/260 (English version)

[6]WOIPFG Obtained New Evidence: Jiang Zemin Ordered the Harvesting of Organs from Falun Gong Practitioners for Transplantation. September 30, 2014.
http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/node/44818 (Chinese Version)
https://www.upholdjustice.org/node/260 (English version)

[7]WOIPFG Obtained New Evidence: Jiang Zemin Ordered the Harvesting of Organs from Falun Gong Practitioners for Transplantation. September 30, 2014.
http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/node/44818 (Chinese Version)
https://www.upholdjustice.org/node/260 (English version)

[8]    Official Website of Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University, Introduction to the Organ Transplant Center

http://www.zjyy.com.cn/dept/index.aspx?id=132

WOIPFG Archived Link:

http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/sites/default/files/report/2016/64700_06390…

[9]    Official Website of Zhujiang Hospital, Organ Transplant Center https://web.archive.org/web/20051217074739/http://www.zjyy.com.cn/docc/zktknew1.asp?id=132

WOIPFG Archived Link:

http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/cn/images/nationalcriminalreports/743.png

[10]   Official Website of Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University, Introduction to the Organ Transplant Center
http://www.zjyy.com.cn/dept/index.aspx?id=132

WOIPFG Archived Link:

http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/sites/default/files/report/2016/64700_06390…

[11]   Website of baike.baidu.com (Baidu Encyclopedia), profile of Lin Minzhuan

http://baike.baidu.com/view/15080279.htm?fr=aladdin

WOIPFG Archived Link:

http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/sites/default/files/report/2016/64700_063908.png

[12]   Website of baike.baidu.com (Baidu Encyclopedia), profile of Lin Minzhuan

http://baike.baidu.com/view/15080279.htm?fr=aladdin

WOIPFG Archived Link:

http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/sites/default/files/report/2016/64700_06390…

[13]   Website of Taiping People's Hospital, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province. Profile of Li Jie

http://www.dgtpyy.com/zhuanjia_Detailed.asp?id=149

WOIPFG Archived Link:

http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/sites/default/files/report/2016/64700_063909.png

[14]   WOIPFG’s 2019 Comprehensive Investigation Results regarding the Chinese Communist Party’s Live Organ Harvesting of Falun Dafa Practitioners
http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/node/125981 (Chinese Version)

https://www.upholdjustice.org/node/460 (English Version)