2024-08-10 03:06:00
[New Tang Dynasty News, Beijing time, August 09, 2024]A company in Shanxi was revealed to have illegally stolen thousands of corpses, shocking public opinion. Mainland media revealed the state-owned enterprise background of the company involved and pointed out that the company’s market share was extremely small. But the relevant reports were quickly deleted.
August 8,ShanxioriBiomaterials Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Shanxi Ori) was revealed to have illegally purchased corpses and limbs from crematoria across the country, the Liver Disease Center of the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University in Shandong, and the Anatomy Teaching and Research Department of Guilin Medical College, and then brutally dismembered them and made them into Allogeneic bone implant materials are sold to orthopedics departments in hospitals across the country.
From 2015 to 2023, the company illegally obtained more than 4,000 human skeletons, with a total operating income of 380 million yuan (RMB, the same below). During the investigation of this case, a total of more than 18 tons of human bone raw materials and semi-finished products and 34,077 finished products were seized.
The case quickly aroused public opinion. Netizens criticized: “Are the ashes collected from the funeral home still my own?” and “(This case) once again refreshed the understanding of the bottom line.” On the day of the incident, the Chinese Communist authorities began to block information on the entire Internet.
A report published by Mainland China’s “Interface News” on the 8th “Who is Shanxi Ori, the suspected “illegal purchase of remains”? What is “allogeneic bone transplantation”? ” was quickly deleted.
The report revealed that Shanxiori was first established in 1999 byChina Institute of Radiation Protectionestablished. The institute is located in Taiyuan, Shanxi, and is affiliated to CNNC Environmental Protection Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China National Nuclear Corporation. China National Nuclear Corporation isCentral SOEs of the Communist Party of Chinadirectly managed by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
1994,China Institute of Radiation ProtectionThe Shanxi Provincial Medical Tissue Bank was established and has the legal status to produce and supply allogeneic transplant tissue materials. In 1999, the Chinese Communist Party authorities ordered the implementation of a medical device registration system, and the three types of implantable medical devices were uniformly managed and registered by the State Food and Drug Administration. In order to provide products for clinical use, the Shanxi Provincial Medical Tissue Bank must obtain a production license and legal person qualification in the form of an entity, and Shanxi Orui came into being.
Li Baoxing, the actual operator of Shanxi Ori Surgery, stated in the article “20 Years of Shanxi Provincial Medical Tissue Bank” published in the “Chinese Journal of Restorative and Reconstructive Surgery” in May 2009 that in 1999, he was appointed by the China Institute of Radiation Protection to serve as the Shanxi Provincial Medical Tissue Bank. As the director of the tissue bank, “we were keenly aware of the opportunity coming, and after many appeals, we finally established and registered Shanxi Orui Biomaterials Co., Ltd. in the form of a joint-stock system.”
According to a relevant public account of the China Medical Device Industry Association, Orui Biotech (Shanxi Orui) is also known as the “Shanxi Provincial Medical Tissue Bank.”
The Shanxiori case may be just the tip of the iceberg
The above-mentioned report also pointed out that the allogeneic bone implant materials produced by Shanxi Orui are mainly used for bone transplantation. Bone grafting is a procedure that transplants healthy bone tissue to the affected area to fill the defect, strengthen fixation, and promote healing. The sources of bone grafts mainly include autologous bone, allograft bone and xenograft bone. Among them, autologous bone is mainly taken from the patient’s iliac bone or fibula, while allogeneic bone is taken from another person’s body, and allogeneic bone is mostly from calf bone.
Among them, allogeneic bone implant materials may sound “scary”, but they are indeed orthopedic implants and repair materials approved for clinical use.
According to data from the Southern Institute of Food and Drug Administration of the Communist Party of China, in 2018, natural bone (i.e. human bone) repair materials accounted for about two-thirds of the market share of China’s orthopedic bone defect repair materials industry, and allogeneic bone accounted for 90% of the natural bone market share. % market share.
The Medical Device Technical Review Center of the State Food and Drug Administration of the Communist Party of China stated in a popular science article published in May 2023 that there are more than 6 million patients with bone dysfunction caused by accidents and orthopedic diseases in China every year, and there is a strong clinical demand for bone defect filling and repair materials. . In 2020, the market size of China’s orthopedic filling and repair materials industry was 5.53 billion yuan, and it is expected that the market size will reach 9.69 billion yuan in 2023.
Relatively speaking, Shanxi Orui’s nine-year operating income was only 380 million yuan, averaging about 40 million yuan per year, and its market share was extremely small.
According to the query results on the official website of the State Food and Drug Administration of the Communist Party of China, Shanghai Yapeng Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Sichuan Hengpu Technology Co., Ltd., Tianjin Jinbangnitech Medical Equipment Co., Ltd., Beijing Weidafeng Medical Biomaterials Co., Ltd., Hebei Keshuo Biotechnology Co., Ltd. and Beijing Xinkangchen Medical Technology Development Co., Ltd. both have approved implant products.
It is not uncommon for corpses to be sold in mainland China
In recent years, corpse reselling scandals have often broken out in mainland China, but the scale of the cases previously disclosed by the media was not as large as that of Shanxi Ori.
On March 22, 2005, the party media Xinhuanet published a news report stating that a corpse-selling case in a funeral parlor in Qinzhou City, Guangxi had been solved. Chen Qinlong, deputy director of the Qinzhou Civil Affairs Bureau, Zhang Wan, chief of the social welfare and social affairs section, and Zhong Wei, director of the funeral management office, were arrested.
According to reports, from 2004 to February 2005, when the crime occurred, body collectors had trafficked more than 100 corpses from Qinzhou and sold them to Guangdong for illegal trade.
As early as the 1960s, the CCP began to “utilize” the corpses of executed prisoners, such as using human brains to make supplements for senior officials, or using human corpses as biological raw materials.
But China’s large-scale corpse processing industry was first disclosed when Gu Kailai and Bo Xilai founded the first corpse processing factory in Dalian in August 1999. The factory processes large quantities of corpses into human specimens, which are exported overseas and exhibited around the world.
Since it was revealed that the CCP’s large-scale organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners also began in Liaoning Province, many people suspect that the source of the corpses in the Gukailai factory may include Falun Gong practitioners whose organs were harvested alive.
According to a report from the Chinese Communist Party’s official media “The Beijing News” that year, there were many biological plastination specimen factories in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Nanjing, Qingdao, Shenzhen, Tai’an and other places in China at that time, and most of them learned the technology from Dalian.
According to a 2012 Epoch Times report, China has long become the world’s largest exporter of corpses. Although the Chinese Communist Party officially banned the export of any corpses in August 2006, the smuggling of human bodies and human biological products is still carried out secretly.
(Editor: Zhou Guihang)
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