The CCP’s Bloody History: from Leeks to Man Mines

(Minghui.org) Chinese people know they’re exploited by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), but they feel powerless. They often jokingly call themselves “leeks” or “man mines.”

Leeks are tasty and easy to grow. One can harvest them repeatedly in one season and year after year. Whether losing money as individual investors to big players in the financial market, or being taken advantage of by big business as consumers, ordinary citizens lose repeatedly but are helpless.

“Man mine” is a relatively new term. Shortly after the term emerged on the Chinese Internet in 2023, it was soon forbidden by the CCP’s censorship. The definition on the Chinese version of Wikipedia is, “People who were born to be used as consumables.” Everything about a Chinese citizen can be exploited—money, material possessions, even their bodies. Unlike leeks that grow back after being harvested, people are not renewable. The transition in terminology from leeks to man mines reflects the increased despair of Chinese citizens: they are exploited when they’re useful, but are discarded as soon as they are deemed useless.

Your Organs May Not Belong to You

Some news on the Chinese Internet is concerning. Here are two recent examples:

TANK, a popular Taiwanese singer, posted an article on Weibo (a Chinese social media platform) on April 7, 2025, announcing that he underwent heart and liver transplant surgery in Hangzhou, China on November 21, 2024. The procedure took place at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine and he was told the organs came from a brain-dead person.

Physicians from the Renji Hospital of Shanghai Jiao Tong University published a paper in the American Journal of Transplantation on January 11, 2023: “The minimum weight and age of kidney donors: en bloc kidney transplantation from preterm neonatal donors weighing less than 1.2 kg to adult recipients.” In two cases reported in the publication, the parents accepted the withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy (WLST) for their babies, two and three days after their births.

There are many unanswered questions related to organ transplants in China. Because of China’s traditional culture, organ donation is rare and finding a suitable match can be challenging due to blood type, tissue type, etc. Nonetheless, many Chinese hospitals boast that organs are readily available within short turnaround times. So where do these organs come from?

Many people believe that harvesting organs from living people is common in China, which explains why so many children and students have gone missing. Since 2007, a large body of evidence indicates that live organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners is carried out through the CCP’s massive organ supply chain.

State Organs, a documentary released in 2024, exposes this horrifying crime based on seven years of research including interviews with numerous victims and witnesses. One interviewee personally participated in organ harvesting. The film shows that this crime has existed in China for 25 years and continues today.

Simply put, Chinese people’s organs belong to the CCP—and the regime can take them whenever needed. This organ harvesting started with persecuted Falun Gong practitioners and has now expanded to other populations, literally turning ordinary Chinese citizens into “man mines”

Severing Ties with the CCP

Organ harvesting is just one of the many brutalities of the CCP. Since the regime took power in 1949, at least 80 million people died as a result of its numerous political campaigns—causing countless families immeasurable pain.

These tragedies can be traced back to the Communist Manifesto published in 1848 which opens with, “A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism.” After the thousands who died during the Paris Commune and in the Soviet Union, the communist specter has grown stronger in China through unparalleled violence.

The specter controls people’s minds. Those who join a CCP organization—including its junior organizations, the Young Pioneers or Communist Youth League—must vow to devote their lives to the regime. This gives the CCP a “legitimate” reason to control the Chinese people. It also means that only by withdrawing from the CCP organizations—as over 445 million Chinese people have already done, can one avoid being eliminated along with the regime when it meets its inevitable end.

Given the CCP’s growing global influence and aggressively-spreading communist ideology, many people outside China have been misled and do not realize what the “community with a shared future for mankind” proposed by the CCP actually means. A review of the decades of bloodshed and lies left by the CCP clearly spotlights the importance of severing ties with the regime before it’s too late.