describing an elaborate scheme of quotas, financial perks...

describing an elaborate scheme of quotas, financial perks, and central government involvement, a former Chinese policeman said authorities were stealing organs from people detained in China.
"Organ harvesting in China has reached an excessive and unbelievable state," said Zhang Jianhua during a television interview. "The government is out of control. It doesn't care about people's lives and deaths."
Zhang, a former officer at the Shenzhen Public Security Bureau (PSB) in Guangzhou Province, made the TV appearance wearing his old uniform with his police ID number clearly visible. He said he fled to the United States after being punished for trying to expose police maltreatment of prisoners, including detained Falun Gong practitioners.
Zhang said he personally witnessed evidence of organ harvesting of an executed prisoner.
In 1998, a convicted drug trafficker from Zhang's district was scheduled to be executed. The inmate's name was Chen Longzai, whose family Zhang had met in Hong Kong and befriended.
The prisoner's brother approached Zhang and requested his help in seeing Chen's body one last time after the execution. Zhang says the brother was concerned that Chen's organs would be removed. Chinese people have traditionally believed bodies should be kept intact after death.
Zhang agreed to the brother's request. He lent him a spare uniform and drove to the execution site. According to Zhang, immediately following the execution the prisoners' bodies were loaded into vans and driven to the crematorium in a journey that lasted two hours.
"The operation was conducted inside a van," he says. "The vehicle drove slowly but steadily, which was probably to facilitate the operation. Armed police vehicles escorted the vans."
Upon arriving at the crematorium, Zhang and his companion found that police had sealed it off. After the two talked a guard into letting them in to see the body, an officer unzipped the body bag.
"We stood two meters away from the body," said Zhang. "As soon as he unzipped the bag, blood poured out. We could see that the body was empty and all the organs were gone. The eyes were gone as well—perhaps corneas were needed."
According to Zhang, the Ministry of Public Security assigns execution quotas to local security bureaus depending on the area's crime rate. In his district of Shenzhen City, Zhang said that the quota was between ten and twenty executions per year. A stipulation added: "the more the better." Zhang said his office came under significant pressure from above when it had difficulty fulfilling the "annual killing quota."
According to Zhang, accompanying the quota system are financial incentives.