Lu Shichun

WOIPFG’s Investigative Report on the Alleged Organ Harvesting of Living Falun Gong Practitioners by Lu Shichun, Director of Hepatobiliary Surgery of the General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army (PLA 301 Hospital)

Apr 9, 2025

Lu Shi-Chun, Male. Postdoctoral and doctoral supervisor, chief surgeon, professor. Director of the Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Department of Surgery, General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army of China. He also serves as a member of the liver transplantation group of the Organ Transplantation Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, a member of the liver transplantation group of the Surgery Branch, a member of the Transplantation Group of the Chinese Medical Association, a member of the Standardized Training Committee of the Chinese Medical Association on Tumor Prevention and Treatment, and a member of the General Surgery Branch of the Beijing Medical Association, an editorial board member of the Chinese Journal of Surgery, deputy editor-in-chief of the Chinese Journal of Hepatobiliary Surgery, and an editorial board member of the Chinese Journal of Organ Transplantation.

In 2004, he was introduced by the West China Hospital of Sichuan University to Beijing Youan Hospital of Capital Medical University as the director of the Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation Center and the Sino-US Liver Transplantation Collaboration Center. Since 2013, he has served as deputy director of the Department of General Surgery of Capital Medical University. He is currently the Director of the Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Clinical Department of Surgery, General Hospital of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

He studied in Germany from 1992 to 1995, receiving his PhD in abdominal surgery and organ transplantation from Freiburg University

During his tenure, he has performed more than 700 liver transplants (including adult and pediatric living liver donor transplants) and more than 2,000 other major hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgeries.[1] He is involved in hepatobiliary surgery for benign and malignant diseases, end-stage liver disease and liver transplantation for acute liver failure. His main research interests are hepatobiliary diseases, transplantation and clinical immunology.

The PLA General Hospital (PLA 301 Hospital) is the largest comprehensive hospital in the military, the PLA Medical College[2], and one of the country's important health care bases.[3]

The hospital's Hepatobiliary Surgery Department is the Hepatobiliary Surgery Research Institute of the whole army, and the liver transplant center is developing rapidly. The hepatobiliary surgery department of the hospital is the largest hepatobiliary surgery center in North China, with a first-class liver transplantation center, and is a research institute of hepatobiliary surgery of the whole army, a national key discipline, a hepatobiliary surgery hospital of the PLA General Hospital, and a research department and a key laboratory of the army. [4]

The Hospital’s Liver Transplant Center is a first-class liver transplant center with multidisciplinary interaction developed and established on the basis of the General Hospital’s Hepatobiliary Surgery Department. The center also undertakes liver transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery health care tasks for leaders at the central, provincial, ministerial and army commander and above levels.[5]

In March 2006, the PLA General Logistics Department and the PLA General Hospital, in order to strengthen central health care and accelerate the development of the center's liver transplantation, specially transferred liver transplantation expert, the Third Military Medical University Southwest Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital President Dong Jiahong to 301 Hospital as director of the Liver and Biliary Surgery Liver Transplantation Center, and the PLA General Hospital Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital President.[6] Following Dong Jiahong’s transfer to 301 Hospital, the hospital's liver transplantation developed extremely fast.[7]

The hospital's Hepatobiliary Surgery Department now has five wards: liver, biliary tract, pancreas, liver transplantation and minimally invasive surgery, and intensive care, with 172 unfolded beds. The hepatobiliary surgery department has no less than 5-8 surgeries per day.[8] Given the current shortage of ward beds, it is difficult to better arrange for seriously ill patients to be hospitalized in time for surgery.[9] Back in 2007, according to Xinhua News Agency, the hospital was stepping up the construction of a new ward building, which was estimated to expand the hepatobiliary surgery department to more than 200 beds by the end of the year.[10]

Plenty of organ donors

1. PLA General Hospital provides organs for civilian hospitals, and the organs provided can be selected for the best match

Yiyang City People's Hospital kidney transplantation department stated: "With the full cooperation from the General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army and the First Military Medical University Hospital Kidney Transplantation center, we select the best kidney. We conduct a comprehensive examination of the donor kidney in advance, and exercise strict control to ensure the most appropriate donor kidney selected."[11]

2. The hospital can provide multiple donors for one patient

Field investigation: A Beijing 301 Hospital kidney patient said that there’s a patient who, after receiving kidney transplant surgery, found the organ was not functioning well. So it was taken out and another kidney was used. And this second one was not working well either, so the doctor immediately found a third one. So a total of three kidneys were used for this one patient.”[12]

3. The hospital does organ transplants frequently

According to some of the medical staff at the operating room of the PLA 301 General Hospital in Beijing, organ transplants are their most frequent and common surgeries, they happen almost every day, so the medical staff there actually see and consider organ transplants, such a big operation, as a very simple matter. And the army authorities often told medical staff at meetings not to disclose the matter to the public.[13]

4. The hospital guarantees a liver replacement within a week
Investigation clues: The 301 Hospital in Beijing guarantees the liver transplant done within a week
The insider revealed: I am from Zhengzhou, a former classmate of a colleague of mine has liver cancer and needs a liver replacement. In mid July, he was hospitalized in Beijing 301 Hospital, and the doctors there guaranteed that the liver could be replaced within a week, and the cost was 350,000 rmb yuan. Since the doctor could guarantee to replace the liver within one week, so my colleagues said that it was unbelievable. This shows that the hospital has a huge human organ bank of living donors.[14]

Reference

[1] 解放军总医院名医荟萃卢实春http://www.301hospital.com.cn:80/web/showexp/myhcv/65/353.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20160815052557/http://www.301hospital.com.c…

[2] Brief Introduction to the General Hospital of the People’s Liberation Army of China Date of Issuance: 04/07/2005

http://www.301hospital.com.cn/web/shownews/vyyjs/8.html

Link to WOIPFG files:

http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/cn/images/nationalcriminalreports/642.pdf

[3] Brief Introduction to Urology Surgery of the General Hospital of the People’s Liberation Army of China

http://www.301hospital.com.cn/web/ksabout/71.html

Link to WOIPFG files:

http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/sites/default/files/report/2016/64700_06210…

[4] Brief Introduction to Hepatobiliary Surgery of the General Hospital of the People’s Liberation Army of China

http://www.301hospital.com.cn/web/showsection/65.html

Link to WOIPFG files:

http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/cn/images/nationalcriminalreports/643.png

[5] China Organ Transplantation Network November 14, 2011: "Liver Friends Meeting", Conveying Warmth and Strength The First Liver Friends Meeting of PLA General Hospital

http://www.transplantation.org.cn/ZJieFangJunZongYiYuanKuaiXun/2011-11/5944.htm

Link to WOIPFG files:

http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/sites/default/files/report/2016/64700_06210…

[6] 《中国器官移植网》 2011年02月14日解放军总医院肝脏移植中心简介http://www.transplantation.org.cn/ZJieFangJunZongYiYuanKuaiXun/2011-02/5055.htm

追查国际存档链接：

http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/sites/default/files/report/2016/64700_062105.png

[7] China Organ Transplantation Network February 14, 2011: Introduction to the Liver Transplant Center of PLA General Hospital

http://www.transplantation.org.cn/ZJieFangJunZongYiYuanKuaiXun/2011-02/5055.htm

Link to WOIPFG files:

http://www.zhuichaguoji.org/sites/default/files/report/2016/64700_06210…

[8] 解放军总医院肝胆外科简介

https://web.archive.org/web/20160113021128/http://www.301hospital.com.cn/web/ksabout/65.html