China has admitted that two-thirds of all organs used in transplants in the country are taken from executed prisoners.
Facing a growing demand for transplants, the Beijing government finally conceded that abuses had taken place after years of allegations that prisoners and even young conscripts in its army were targeted for their organs.
It announced a national plan to curb a rampant black market organ trade where a single kidney can sell for as much as £50,000.
Promising a major initiative to clean up China's murky organ donation business, the country's vice-minister for health, Huang Jiefu, said Death Row inmates were "definitely not a proper source for organ transplants".
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