In China, state-run media have been promoting a job called “organ donation coordinators,” trumpeting how people in this line of work are making a difference in society. Their role is to convince families of dying patients to agree to donate their loved one’s organs—needed to supply China’s booming transplant industry. The families that agree, in…

Evidence of large-scale forced organ harvesting has cast a shadow on China’s organ transplant system for more than a decade. Now an internal document analyzing organ allocation and transplant data in one Chinese province has revealed systemic reporting abuses by hospitals. The abuses throw serious doubt on the credibility of China’s official organ registration system,…