On September 21, 2025, the “Chinese Culture Festival” held in Duisburg, Germany, faced protests from Chinese dissidents. Pictured: Zhang Qi (right) and her mother attending the protest. (Photo provided by Wang Shoufeng)
[People News] On September 21, 2025, the Chinese Consulate's “Chinese Culture Festival” in Duisburg, Germany, unexpectedly faced fierce protests and accusations from a mother and daughter. Holding posters detailing their tragic experiences, they denounced the CCP's illegal organ transplants, declaring that “no one is safe.”
According to an interview by Dajiyuan reporter Qiu Chen, the mother, Du Tingxiang, is from Henan Province, and her daughter, Zhang Qi, is a victim of live organ harvesting. They accused Cui Guanghui, Director of Thoracic Surgery at the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, of deceitfully harvesting Zhang Qi's entire left lung.
Zhang Qi's experience is not an isolated case. Recently, Zhang Yu, a nurse at a top-tier hospital in Wuhan, disclosed to The Dajiyuan that organ harvesting from patients is an open secret in Chinese hospitals—known to everyone. This is not the act of individual doctors but an “entire sophisticated industrial chain” involving multiple levels from hospital directors, party secretaries, department heads, lead surgeons, to the actual operators. (Further reading: Medical Professionals Expose the CCP's Organ Harvesting Profit Chain)
A Cold Led to Catastrophe: Zhang Qi Endures Physical and Mental Agony
In June 2018, a 23-year-old Zhang Qi suffered a catastrophic turn of events due to a common cold, forever altering her life.
Du Tingxiang and her daughter Zhang Qi recount their harrowing experience of forced organ harvesting, expressing that in China, “no one is safe.” (Video interview screenshot)
Recalling her daughter's ordeal, Du Tingxiang, who must care for her daily, breaks down in tears. (Video interview screenshot)
On September 21, 2025, the “Chinese Culture Festival” in Duisburg, Germany, faced protests by Chinese dissidents. Pictured: Zhang Qi (left) and her mother attending the protest. (Photo provided by Wang Shoufeng)
In a video, Zhang Qi opened her shirt to show reporters the long surgical scar running from her trachea to her abdomen, along with a knife wound stretching from her left chest to her back—evidence of her left lung being harvested by doctors without her knowledge. Additionally, a large hole gaped under her armpit, requiring daily dressing changes and cleaning.
Her mother, Du Tingxiang, explained that the original armpit wound was fist-sized, with forceps reaching 10 centimeters deep. Only after multiple surgeries was the lung cavity reduced.
The armpit wound where Zhang Qi's entire left lung was removed by doctors at Zhengzhou University First Affiliated Hospital. (Screenshot from video interview)
As a victim of live organ harvesting, Zhang Qi stated that her trachea was not properly sutured, leading to an internal chest cavity infection with accumulated pus.
Seven years ago, without the knowledge of Ms. Du or her daughter, doctors removed Zhang Qi's entire left lung. When suturing her trachea, they merely used medical staples as a makeshift solution.
Zhang Qi stated: “They used several [surgical staples], just randomly stapling it. You can still see the staples inside, and I even coughed up one...”
Du Tingxiang, who has been caring for her daughter, shows the medical staples used by Zhengzhou University Affiliated Hospital. (Video interview screenshot)
When Zhang Qi's entire left lung was removed, the incision ran from her left chest all the way to her back, leaving a scar over ten centimeters long. (Video interview screenshot)
To drain the pus from her chest cavity, doctors later inserted a drainage tube through a hole in her back. However, during one tube replacement, they punctured her esophagus.
Because the perforated esophagus risked food entering the lungs, doctors attached a tube to her intestine. To keep her alive, Du Tingxiang fed Zhang Qi tiny amounts of food daily via syringe into her intestine or through intravenous nutrition until the esophagus was repaired.
Mother and daughter flee China. German doctor: Surviving this ordeal is a miracle.
Ms. Du fled to Germany last October, and Zhang Qi escaped in February this year. When doctors first saw Zhang Qi after her arrival, they declared that her survival was “nothing short of a miracle.”
Doctors emphasized that prolonged air travel was risky, as massive hemothorax during flight would be impossible to treat. Yet she endured a 15-hour flight, braving life-threatening odds, driven by the imperative to escape and survive.
Zhengzhou Doctors Openly Deceive Patients, Harvest Left Lung
In June 2018, after suffering from a cold for a week, Zhang Qi feared it might be influenza and went to the hospital for examination. They visited the Internal Medicine Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, having heard it was the best hospital. At the time, the doctor told them that while outpatient visits wouldn't be covered by insurance, hospitalization would be reimbursed, and the costs weren't high. It was also a way to help them.
When Zhang Qi was discharged from the hospital, the medical records stated that a fungal infection was detected in her lungs during an examination on May 28, 2020. (Provided by Du Tingxiang and Zhang Qi)
They believed the doctor's explanation. After admission, the doctor said Zhang Qi had a fungal infection in her lungs and needed thoracoscopic treatment. Zhang Qi was then transferred to the thoracic surgery department. Chief Thoracic Surgeon Cui Guanghui assured them it would only require a minor puncture procedure.
During the surgery, a nurse came out and said the chest cavity had already been opened, so the puncture wouldn't be done; the doctor needed to change the surgical plan. The nurse urged Ms. Du to sign the consent form, saying there was no time to waste. Ms. Du signed it in a daze.
Later, the nurse came out again and said that her daughter's lung had been removed to prevent future infection. The lower part of the lung had been removed to prevent infection, and then the upper part of the lung was also removed. The entire left lung was removed. Ms. Du was stunned at that moment.
Photo shows medical records of Zhang Qi's surgery on June 6, 2018, at Zhengzhou University First Affiliated Hospital, performed by Thoracic Surgery Director Cui Guanghui. (Provided by Du Tingxiang and Zhang Qi)
Thoracic Surgery Director Cui Guanghui claimed this was for their own good, to prevent future complications. He stated that humans have five lobes in their lungs, and removing these two would leave three sufficient for normal life without any issues.
Cui Guanghui's justification mirrors tactics commonly used by doctors to deceive patients into organ removal—an open secret in Chinese hospitals.
Zhang Yu, a nurse with a decade of experience at major Chinese hospitals, recently disclosed to The Dajiyuan that when patients undergo blood tests, samples are routinely sent for tissue matching. Once a match is found and an organ buyer is secured, doctors deceive patients under the guise of treatment to harvest organs.
She gave examples: doctors would scare patients with claims like “hydronephrosis” or “kidney problems,” then remove healthy kidneys under the pretext that partial removal wouldn't affect daily life.
After Zhang Qi's lung removal, she developed a post-operative lung infection and sought examination elsewhere. The out-of-town examination also found no fungal infection. Beijing doctors questioned why her left lung was removed when fungal infections are treatable with medication!
Zhang Qi's report from Zhengzhou Aidi Kang Medical Laboratory showed no fungal infection in her lungs. This directly contradicted the diagnosis from the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University.
Different Treatment for Diseased vs. Healthy Organs
Her mother, Du Tingxiang, provided The Dajiyuan with a detail revealing procedural violations during the surgery. Ms. Du stated that after her daughter's left lung was removed, “The doctors didn't let us see it (the excised lung). The surgical record simply noted it was removed.”
Regarding the hospital's non-compliant practices, Zhang Yu explained to The Dajiyuan that after organ removal, diseased organs and healthy organs are handled differently. If a healthy organ is removed, the family is actually prevented from seeing it.
“Diseased organs must be shown to the family—that's a mandatory procedure. They also need to be sent for testing,” she explained. “If a healthy organ is removed, it's placed in a specialized organ preservation box. The handling protocols are entirely different.”
Zhang Qi's lung removal scar measures over ten centimeters, closely resembling that of organ harvesting survivor and Falun Gong practitioner Cheng Peiming—both bear long scars extending from the chest to the back.
In December 2001, Falun Gong practitioner Cheng Peiming was illegally sentenced to eight years in prison for upholding his faith. While incarcerated at Daqing Prison in Heilongjiang Province, Cheng Peiming was transferred to Daqing Fourth Hospital in November 2004 and subjected to organ harvesting without his knowledge. In 2006, he was again sent to the hospital for a second organ extraction but managed to escape. In 2015, Cheng Peiming fled China through various means and was rescued to the United States in 2020. After arriving in the U.S., nine separate medical imaging examinations revealed that his left liver and lung had been partially removed.
Zhang Qi stated: “Not only did they steal my lung, they also tried to force-sell me someone else's lung.” At the time, doctor Cui Guanghui told them that if they prepared 500,000 yuan, a suitable lung donor could be found within three months.
Shortly after discharge, Zhang Qi developed a fever and began coughing up pleural effusion. When they returned to see Dr. Cui, he inserted a tracheal stent, but it proved ineffective.
The mother and daughter were forced to seek treatment elsewhere, traveling to Beijing, Shanghai, and Xi'an. Doctors there also informed them that the stent was useless due to tracheal movement and removed it.
Zhang Qi's report from Zhengzhou Aidikon Medical Laboratory showed no fungal infection in the lungs. This diagnosis differed entirely from that of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University. (Provided by Du Tingxiang and Zhang Qi)
Subsequently, Zhang Qi underwent multiple surgeries to suture both ends of the trachea, preventing air from entering the chest cavity; then a hole was created under her armpit and several ribs were removed to help reduce the size of the lung cavity.
The image shows the fee statement from the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University for removing the tracheal stent during Zhang Qi's hospitalization from May 28 to June 19, 2020. (Provided by Du Tingxiang and Zhang Qi)
A certificate issued by Dongzhimen Hospital of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine confirms Zhang Qi's lung contains pus and is infected. (Provided by Du Tingxiang and Zhang Qi)
Daily Agony: Mother and Daughter Clinging to Each Other for Survival
Watching her daughter endure such suffering, Ms. Du began over seven years of round-the-clock care, changing her daughter's dressings daily and tending to her every need.
Now Zhang Qi can only eat a small handful of food at a time and feels hungry soon after. Due to the hole in her chest cavity, she has been unable to lie flat to sleep since 2022, forcing her to sit upright constantly. Her lumbar spine is now permanently curved.
Zhang Qi cannot eat normally due to damage to her trachea and esophagus. Her entire left lung was removed by doctors at the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University. (Video interview screenshot)
The pile of quilts behind Zhang Qi is what she and her mother use to lean against for rest. She cannot sleep lying down. (Video interview screenshot)
During the interview, Ms. Du pointed to the pile of quilts behind her and tearfully explained: "This is where she sleeps. For years, we've been sleeping sitting up like this. I can't lie flat. She can't bathe independently either. She's like a baby—I can't leave her alone for a moment. I have to care for her constantly."
Thirty-year-old Zhang Qi tearfully lamented: “These years should have been the happiest and most youthful, but instead I've spent them shuttling between hospitals.”
Her voice was hoarse as she spoke, occasionally interrupting herself to cough before pausing.
Zhang Qi has undergone over twenty surgeries on her chest to suture her trachea and reconstruct her thoracic cavity. (Video interview screenshot)
No avenue for petitioning; complaints met with suppression
Facing injustice, Ms. Du sought help from the Henan Provincial Health Commission with a friend in 2021. The commission registered her complaint and told her to wait. Soon after, Ms. Du was barred from leaving Henan Province. She later learned that the president and party secretary of Zhengzhou University Affiliated Hospital was also the director of the Henan Provincial Health Commission—the same person. Where could ordinary people go to seek justice?
One of Ms. Du’s friends planned to petition the authorities, and they had agreed to go together. Within three days, her friend was arrested and sentenced to two years and nine months. The local township government warned Ms. Du that if she continued to defy orders, she too would be detained and sentenced.
It wasn't until 2022 that she realized: “They restricted my freedom. I had a video showing that when my child needed surgery, I couldn't even take a bus—they wouldn't let me board. They wouldn't let me take the train. I took a nucleic acid test, but they refused to give me a nucleic acid code. They restricted my freedom everywhere.”
For her daughter, to care for her daughter, Ms. Du gave up. She decided to flee with her child.
Wang Zhiyuan, Chairman of the International Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong, stated: “Such tragedies in mainland China leave ordinary citizens unable to seek justice. The root cause lies with the Chinese Communist Party. The CCP's forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners has destroyed society's moral foundation and created a murderous organ transplant system.”
Ms. Du: Having a Child, Only to Have Her Organs Stolen
In China, Ms. Du and her daughter came into contact with many democracy activists. After bypassing the Great Firewall to learn the truth, they finally understood that her daughter's lungs had been stolen and sold, and that Chinese Communist Party hospitals were conducting illegal organ transplants.
They also discovered that according to investigations by the International Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong, Cui Guanghui, Chief Physician of the Thoracic Surgery Department at Zhengzhou University First Affiliated Hospital, participated in organ transplants between August 1995 and December 2004. (Source: https://www.zhuichaguoji.org/node/109270)
Public records within China indicate that the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University performed its first kidney transplant in 1978 and its first liver transplant in 2017. In the first half of 2023 alone, the hospital conducted 1,261 organ transplant surgeries.
Ms. Du believes that the large number of missing teenagers and college students in China each year is connected to these hospitals. With 188 hospitals performing organ transplants in China, children go missing every day.
She stated: "Nowadays, young people are afraid to get married or have children. If you have a child, they might end up as someone else's organ. Who can watch their child every single day? (Party leader Xi Jinping) openly declares he wants to live to 150—how many organs would that require?!"
“The CCP's organ transplant system is murder on demand, illegal organ harvesting. Because once someone matches a donor, they vanish without a trace—they're eliminated through some horrific tragedy,” she added.
Zhang Qi denounced, “No one is safe. They kill for profit—anyone. If someone needs an organ, they'll kill another person for it. If another person needs one, they'll kill this person for that person. They give to whoever pays.”
Ms. Du stated that over 3.9 million people went missing in China in 2016, 3 million in 2023, and 3.09 million in 2024. “With so many children vanishing daily, everyone lives in fear. That's why organ transplants must stop.”
Wang Shoufeng, Vice Chair of the China Democracy Front Germany and founder of the New Citizens Movement European Alliance, believes: “Zhang Qi was relatively fortunate to escape overseas and expose the CCP's atrocities. But hundreds of thousands of victims were silenced. Even among those who narrowly survived, only a tiny fraction managed to flee abroad. Behind Zhang Qi's case lie millions of disappearances and hundreds of thousands of organ transplants—a truly shocking reality.”
Wang Zhiyuan, Chairman of the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), reflected: “Live organ harvesting has caused a complete collapse of moral foundations and the judicial system. The CCP has transformed people into demons, turning angels in white coats into criminals who harvest organs from the living. Humanity has been utterly destroyed. In their eyes, people have become nothing more than potential organ donors—a gold mine of human bodies, a source of enormous wealth within reach.”△
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