Peng Chenghong

WOIPFG's Investigative Report on the Alleged Organ Harvesting of Living Falun Gong Practitioners by Peng Chenghong, Director of the General Surgery Department at Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine

Apr 9, 2025

Summary: Peng Chenghong, male, born in 1957, director of the General Surgery Department of Shanghai Ruijin Hospital and chief surgeon.

Ruijin Hospital is one of the earliest units in China to carry out liver and heart transplants. It has experience in performing a variety of complex heart, liver, kidney transplants, small intestine transplants, and combined organ transplants. The Organ Transplant Center was officially established in February 2003 and currently has 57 beds, including 14 ICU beds. According to incomplete data, the average annual number of transplants exceeds 200. As of October 2006, the hospital has followed up more than 60,000 kidney transplant recipients.

In view of the broader background of the Chinese Communist Party's state crime of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners, since Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine is allegedly involved in the crime, Peng Chenghong, the director of the hospital's General Surgery Department, is a major suspect.

Name: Peng Chenghong, male, born in 1957, Director of General Surgery, Ruijin Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Chief Surgeon.

He received a doctorate degree in General Surgery from Zhejiang Medical University in 1993;

From March 1997 to March 1998, he worked as a visiting scholar at the Multi-Organ Transplant Center of the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. He has in-depth research on liver transplantation and claims to be the first person to complete split liver transplantation and the first in situ assisted partial cadaver liver transplantation in China[1].

Ruijin Hospital is one of the earliest units in China to carry out liver and heart transplantation. The center has a large number of best surgeons in China in the field of organ transplantation, and has experience in performing a variety of complex heart, liver, kidney transplantation, small intestine transplantation, and combined organ transplantation. The center has advanced and complete transplant wards, transplant intensive care units and transplant operating rooms, as well as independent organ transplant pathology rooms and organ transplant laboratories[2].

The hospital ranked 4th among the best specialized hospitals among the top 100 hospitals in China in 2013[3]. The Organ Transplantation Center was established in February 2003. Several transplantation talents in China, including Peng Chenghong, Yin Lu, Xu Da, and Wang Xianghui, joined the team. Based on the clinical and scientific research of the hospital's existing operating room, anesthesia department, intensive care unit, hematology department, pathology department and other related departments, a self-proclaimed complete transplantation team was established. There are 57 beds, including 14 ICU beds. The average number of transplants per year exceeds 200[4]. As of October 2006[5], the hospital has followed up more than 60,000 kidney transplant recipients[6].

Investigation Respondent: Nurse, Transplant Unit, Ruijin Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine

Investigation Date: September 7, 2017（Tel: +86+ 2164370045）

Nurse: We do liver transplants every month anyway. We do about ten kidney transplants a month! The number of liver transplants done is about half of that.

(Recording 1 download: MP3; for complete recording transcript, please see Attachment 24)

Investigation Respondent: Li Tao, Associate Chief Surgeon, Hepatobiliary Surgical Division, Ruijin Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine

Investigation Date: July 24, 2019（Tel: +86-21-64370045-666701）

Summary: I’m also a surgeon in liver transplant; you can come see me! I’m Li Tao, sitting on Fridays at the specialist outpatient clinic of General Surgery. Come here quickly, come here quickly, come here quickly, and we will then talk, okay! Please write down my cell number: 18621830659.

(Recording 2 download: MP3; transcript download: pdf 071)

Investigation Respondent: Fu Zhiren, director of Liver Transplant Department, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital

Investigation Date: February 24, 2023 (Tel: +86-13901634770 )

Summary:

1. Anyway, one or two months are still needed, and sometimes it is faster, and that’s an exception. It probably takes a month or two.

2. I actually work at both Ruijin and Changzheng (Hospitals). I do less (surgeries) at Changzheng Hospital, and more at Ruijin Hospital. If (a surgery is) needed, I’ll probably have to do it at Ruijin.

3. My cell phone number for Ruijin: 1390 1634 770

4. Our hospital also has donations, and there are also some from outside... some through allocation, and it’s a combined source.

(Recording 3 download: MP3; transcript download: pdf7)

References

[1]《中国器官移植网》彭承宏大夫简介http://www.transplantation.org.cn/ZShangHaiRuiJinYiYuanZhuanJiaTuanDui/2011-03/5477.htm

https://web.archive.org/web/20140419200621/http://www.transplantation.org.cn/ZShangHaiRuiJinYiYuanZhuanJiaTuanDui/2011-03/5477.htm

"China Organ Transplantation Network", Introduction to Dr. Peng Chenghong http://www.transplantation.org.cn/ZShangHaiRuiJinYiYuanZhuanJiaTuanDui/…

https://web.archive.org/web/20140419200621/http://www.transplantation.o…

[2]《中国器官移植网》上海交通大学医学院附属瑞金医院器官移植中心简介 [日期：2011-03-01]

http://www.transplantation.org.cn/ZShangHaiJiaoTongDaXueYiXueYuanFuShuRuiJin/2011-03/5466.htm

"China Organ Transplantation Network" Introduction to the Organ Transplantation Center of Ruijin Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine [Date: 2011-03-01]

http://www.transplantation.org.cn/ZShangHaiJiaoTongDaXueYiXueYuanFuShuR…

[3]《新华网》“全国百强医院排行榜名单云南无一所入围？” 2014年11月03日来源：人民网

http://yn.xinhuanet.com/newscenter/2014-11/03/c_133762266.htm

追查国际存档链接：

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Xinhuanet, "No hospital in Yunnan is on the list of the top 100 hospitals in China?" November 3, 2014 Source: People's Daily Online

http://yn.xinhuanet.com/newscenter/2014-11/03/c_133762266.htm

International Criminal Investigation Team archive link:

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[4] 《家庭医生在线》器官移植中心简介

http://yyk.familydoctor.com.cn/192/schedule_2071/

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