By Cai Siyun, Vision Times
For years now, allegations of forced organ harvesting in China have drawn condemnation from international watchdogs and human rights’ groups. Now, a newly-surfaced video featuring a transplant doctor from the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine has reignited public outrage after the physician claimed he handled “hundreds of donor lungs” in a single year.
The remarks, delivered casually during a 2025 year-end transplant review meeting, have shocked observers, with critics questioning how such volumes could be possible — and at what human cost.
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‘Hundreds of donor lungs’
The video, which circulated online in recent days, shows the doctor recounting what he described as his first lung retrieval case of 2025. He said he personally traveled to a city near the Yunnan–Myanmar border to collect the organ under his supervision.
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After arriving in Kunming, the doctor said he opted to take a high-speed train to the final destination in order to minimize cold ischemia time. He acknowledged that coordinating with airlines was “very difficult” due to the scale of resource mobilization involved, but said the retrieval ultimately succeeded.
He then dismissed the episode as routine, remarking that it was merely “a very ordinary retrieval” among the “hundreds of donor lungs” he had obtained.
Claims of forced organ harvesting
Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched its crackdown on Falun Gong in July 1999, China’s transplant volumes have surged, yet authorities have never transparently disclosed where the organs are procured from. The transplant program at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University expanded rapidly during this period. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a peaceful meditation practice that has been brutally persecuted in China for over two decades.
The hospital has since been listed by World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) among institutions suspected of participating in live organ harvesting. Several senior figures in its transplant department have also been identified as allegedly responsible.
A 2014 WOIPFG report stated that hospital president and transplant center director Wang Weilin had performed hundreds of transplant surgeries and was able to match liver transplants rapidly. By March 2021, he had reportedly completed more than 1,100 liver transplants. The findings also allege that unwilling donors include prisoners of conscience, such as Uyghur Muslims, Tibetans, and more.
Spotlight on China’s ‘top lung transplant surgeon’
In August 2016, WOIPFG announced a formal investigation into Chen Jingyu, vice president of the hospital, citing serious suspicion of involvement in forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners, acts amounting to genocide-related murder crimes.
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Chinese state media have lauded Chen as “China’s No. 1 lung transplant surgeon,” claiming he performs 70 percent of all lung transplants nationwide. Official reports say Chen and his team have helped establish lung transplant programs in more than 30 hospitals across 18 provinces.
On Jan. 1, 2026, Chen wrote on Weibo: “In 2025, the Wuxi and Zhejiang Second lung transplant teams I led completed a total of 408 lung transplants,” including 213 at Zhejiang University’s Second Affiliated Hospital. Previously, Chen posted that he performed 370 lung transplants in 2023, and in July 2024 said he completed two double-lung transplants in a single day while traveling between Wuxi and Hangzhou.
In a 2022 interview with Health Times, affiliated with the CCP’s People’s Daily, Chen stated that over 20 years he personally performed more than 1,500 lung transplants. That same year, the Wuxi People’s Hospital transplant team reportedly conducted six lung transplants within 24 hours, with four surgeries running simultaneously.
Netizens react
Once the video appeared on overseas platforms, particularly X, it triggered a wave of condemnation. “Knowing full well where those organs come from, yet speaking so calmly — it’s terrifying, utterly inhuman,” wrote one user. Another asked, “Treating hundreds of lives with such cold indifference, can this still be called human?”
Others pointed to the broader implications: “Removing a lung kills a person. One doctor handles hundreds of lungs, so how many people are being killed nationwide?” Another comment read, “He doesn’t even realize he’s committing a crime anymore. It’s like he’s proudly completing an assignment.”
Some commenters argued the scale alone points to an industrialized system. “Organ harvesting has become an underground industry,” one wrote. “So many departments and people are involved—it’s too big. In a country without free speech, this can only be government-led.”