>> i was invited to the peking union medical college by jiefu huang, who was, at the time, a vice ministerhealth, and he was a liver transplant surgeon. and he said to me, "frank, this is-- we've got a horrendous problem and i need your help." individuals in china were being executed and those were the, they became the source of organs for many people from around the world going to china. as many as 11,000 transplants being performed, and this is in 2006. >> sreenivasan: while some doctors like huang jiefu wanted this practice stopped, others who were making money from organ trafficking did not, according to delmonico. to put pressure on china, a number of medical associations and journals launched a boycott, beginning in 2006, banning chinese research papers that relied on data from executed prisoners. at the same time delmonico and other doctors helped china build a new and legitimate system for organ recovery, similar to the system in the u.s., requiring consent and only from live or deceased donors in hospitals. has china stopped harvesting organs from people that they've executed? >>