Matched and ‘Killed to Order’: Inside the CCP’s Dark Organ Industry | With Guest Host Rob Schneider

Feb 28, 2026

Jan Jekielek, senior editor and investigator who spent two decades documenting forced organ harvesting in China. He recounts how pre-typed prisoners enable rapid scheduled transplants, traces the trade’s rise from the Falun Gong crackdown, reveals Project 981’s elite longevity ties, and details expanding targets including Uyghurs and a market for “halal organs.”

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INSIGHT

How China Created On Demand Transplants

China developed a scheduled transplant market by pre-screening incarcerated prisoners to match foreign patients quickly.
Jan Jekielek explains prisons were biometrically typed so a patient could pay $150k–$200k and get an organ in weeks rather than years.

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Project 981 Links Longevity To On Demand Organs

China's elite pursue longevity through repeated transplants tied to a secret program called Project 981 targeting 150 years.
The hot mic of Xi and Putin referenced a 150-year target, linking elite longevity programs to the transplant industry.

ANECDOTE

Patient Who Received Eight Kidneys In China

Multiple firsthand patient stories show repeat transplants in China where several grafts were tried until one held.
Jan Jekielek recounts a Taiwanese patient who received up to eight kidneys across visits until one succeeded.

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For twenty years, I’ve investigated a crime almost too horrific to name—now documented in my new book: “Killed to Order: China’s Organ Harvesting Industry and the True Nature of America’s Biggest Adversary.”

In America and other free countries, patients wait months or even years for an organ. But in China, transplant wait lists are measured in weeks—or even days.

In this episode, the tables are turned, and I’m in the guest seat this time.

I invited my good friend, actor and comedian Rob Schneider, who has become deeply personally invested in this issue, to be the guest host for this special episode.

This is the dark reality: When someone decides to go to China and pay a hefty sum for a scheduled transplant, then on the other side, an incarcerated prisoner of conscience, who has already been blood-typed and tissue-typed, is likely being killed to order.

China’s transplant industry began its exponential expansion at the exact same time as the state launched its aggressive, nationwide campaign to eradicate the spiritual practice of Falun Gong. There is growing evidence of Uyghurs being targeted as well. There is even an underground global market for what are called “Halal organs,” which means organs from Muslim donors.

And it’s not just wealthy foreigners who travel to China for organ transplants.

China’s super elite have access to a secretive longevity program dubbed “Project 981” with eerie ties to this macabre organ industry. This project entered the spotlight last year after the revealing hot mic exchange between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, where they talked about extending lifespans in part through repeated organ transplants.

American institutions have, wittingly or unwittingly, helped facilitate the rise of China’s transplant system through partnerships with Chinese transplant centers, the training of hundreds of Chinese surgeons, and the supply of China’s organ preservation solutions, surgical instruments, immunosuppressive drugs, and transplant diagnostics.

The stories I share in this episode are disturbing, but we cannot afford to look away.

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.