Ma Lulin

WOIPFG's Investigative Report on the Alleged Organ Harvesting of Living Falun Gong Practitioners by Ma Lulin, Director of the Urology Department of Peking University Third Hospital

Apr 9, 2025

Summary: Ma Lulin has served as the chief surgeon and director of the Urology Department of Peking University Third Hospital since January 2001. He has long been engaged in kidney transplantation and has completed more than 1,200 kidney transplants.

The hospital is one of the joint institutions of the Peking University Organ Transplantation Institute. Zhu Jiye, director of the Institute and director of the Hepatobiliary Surgery Department of Peking University People's Hospital, said in an interview with China Economic Weekly: "Our hospital once performed 4,000 liver and kidney transplants in one year." The kidney transplant center led by Ma Lulin ranked third in Beijing in 2001 and ranked first in Beijing in 2004 in the number of kidney transplants. Since then, it has become one of the largest kidney transplant centers nationwide. Telephone investigations show that there are multiple kidney transplant teams that can do it.

In view of the broader background of the Chinese Communist Party's state crime of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners, since Peking University Third Hospital is allegedly involved in the crime, Ma Lulin, the director of the hospital's Urology Department, is a major suspect.

Ma Lulin, Master of Medicine, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Chief Surgeon, Director of Urology, Peking University Third Hospital

Personal Profile: Member of the Standing Committee of the Urology Branch of the Chinese Medical Association and leader of the Kidney Transplantation Team, member at deputy director level of the Urology Branch of the Beijing Medical Association, member of the Urology Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, and member of the Organ Transplantation Branch of the Beijing Medical Association.

From September 1979 to July 1984, he was a medical student at the Fourth Military Medical University and, upon graduation, received a bachelor's degree in medicine from the Medical Department.

September 1988 through July 1991 he was at Department of Urology, Graduate School of 301 Hospital, and received a master's degree in medicine. From July 1984 to August 1988, he was a resident surgeon in the Urology Department of Shijiazhuang Peace Hospital.

September 1991 through June 1995 he was an attending surgeon with the Department of Urology, General Hospital of Beijing Military Region. From July 1995 to January 2001, he was an associate chief surgeon with the Department of Urology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital. From January 2001 to now, he has been a chief surgeon and Department Director of Department of Urology, the Third Hospital of Peking University.

He has been working on kidney transplantation for a long time, and has completed more than 1,200 cases of kidney transplantation. More than 20 cases of combined pancreas-duodenum-kidney transplantation have been performed.[1]

The predecessor of the Peking University Organ Transplant Research Institute (hereinafter referred to as the Institute), the Peking University Organ Transplant Center (hereinafter referred to as the Center), was established in October 2001 under the personal guidance of Han Qide, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress of the Communist Party of China. The institute is jointly composed of five medical institutions affiliated to Peking University, including Peking University First Hospital, People's Hospital, and Third Hospital. It claims to be aimed at integrating its advantages and promoting the development of medical and scientific research including liver transplantation, kidney transplantation, pancreatic transplantation, heart transplantation, corneal transplantation, bone marrow transplantation, etc.[2]

Zhu Jiye, director of the Institute and director of the Hepatobiliary Surgery Department of Peking University People's Hospital, said in an interview with China Economic Weekly: "Our hospital once performed 4,000 liver and kidney transplants in one year."[3]

In May 2000, clinical liver transplantation at Peking University Third Hospital officially began. Fifteen cases were completed that year. Subsequently, kidney transplantation and pancreatic kidney combined transplantation were also carried out one after another, and organ transplantation became a routine operation of the hospital, which claimed that the effect and number of liver transplantation in the transplant center were at the forefront in Beijing and even the whole country.[4]

In December 2005, the relocation of the new surgical building of Peking University Third Hospital was launched. The new building has 470 beds.[5] The hospital said the liver transplant center was moved to the new surgical building, and the hospital provided greater space for development for liver transplant.[6]

The Organ Transplant Center of Peking University performed 4,000 cases of liver and kidney transplants within one year

Ma Lulin leads the kidney transplant center, and the number of kidney transplants ranked first in Beijing in 2004

Since January 2001, Ma Lulin has served as Director of Urology Department of the hospital. In 2001, the hospital ranked third in Beijing for kidney transplantation, and entered the ranks of the large kidney transplantation centers in China. In 2004, it became the first in Beijing. [7] Ma Lulin is concurrently a member of the Standing Committee of the Urology Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, the leader of the Kidney Transplantation Team, and a member of the Organ Transplantation Branch of the Beijing Medical Association.

Telephone investigation shows that there are multiple kidney transplant teams, all of which can do it.

Investigation Respondent: Doctor at Kidney Transplant Office, the Third Hospital of Peking University [8]

Investigation Date: August 29, 2017 (Tel: +86-1082267523)

Summary: We do more than 100 cases a year. We have 11 medical teams for kidney transplantation, all of which can do it.

(Recording 1 download: MP3; transcript download: Attachment 10)

Investigation Respondent: Ma Lulin, Kidney Transplant, the Third Hospital of Peking University[9]

Investigation Date: October 29, 2019 (Tel: +86-156119082820)

Summary:

Question: If the patient signs up at your place, is it possible to do it within half a month or one month?

Answer: There is such possibility, but relatively small.

Question: The other doctor said that blood type B might be easier for a match. I wonder if the match could be found in your hospital.

Answer: Well, come to my clinic next Monday morning! Next Monday morning.