The Chinese government recently hosted two events related to organ “donation” as part of its Belt and Road Initiative, showcasing advancements in organ transplant access and forming agreements with Central Asian nations.
Despite claims of progress in organ donation, China’s use of a social credit system and its treatment of minority groups raise concerns.
The Chinese Communist Party’s engagement in a genocide of Kazakh people in East Turkistan, as well as reports of live organ harvesting from prisoners, have sparked international condemnation. (Trending: Joe Biden Impeachment Formalized As Republicans Unite)
Chinese officials have openly admitted to using organs from death row prisoners for transplants.
The events resulted in an agreement with Kazakhstan for medical training and technology access, raising further concerns about the source of organs.
These events have highlighted the ongoing human rights violations and ethical concerns surrounding China’s organ transplant practices.
According to the Global Times, “’The 7th China-International Organ Donation Conference” and the “Belt & Road Symposium on Organ Donation and Transplantation International Cooperation Development’ both occurred in Nanning, southern Guangxi province.”
China completed “more than 40,200 deceased organ donations from 2015 to the end of 2022, with 120,100 major organs donated,” added the outlet.
“Currently, China ranks second in the world and first in Asia in terms of the number of organ donations,” reported the Global Times, citing data from The China Organ Transplant Development Foundation (COTDF).
“However, organ donors per million people (PMP) is less than 4 percent, which is far from satisfactory compared to the 47 percent in developed countries,” continued the article.
Huang Jiefu, Chairman of China Human Organ Donation and Transplantation Committee and chair of the COTDF Advisory Board said, “The revision of the regulation demonstrates the Party and the country’s emphasis on organ donation, providing strong legal protection for the high-quality development of the organ donation cause.”
“Kazakhstan will send medical personnel to study at the Xinjiang Medical University hospital and Key State Laboratory specifically for research and treatment against high incidence diseases in Central Asia,” according to The Global Times.
Ethan Gutmann, a senior researcher and author said, “If we assume that at any given time since 2017, there are approximately a million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and Hui in the camps, my estimate is that 25,000 to 50,000 camp detainees are being harvested every year.”
“Twenty-eight-year-olds from the Xinjiang [East Turkistan] camps can be theoretically harvested for two or three organs, translating into a minimum of 50,000 organs or a maximum of 150,000 organs,” continued Gutman.
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