More than 160 thousand people in east China’s Jiangsu province have become organ donation volunteers while 1110 donors have realized their will upon their death, according to a ceremony held before the Qingming Festival to honor the life-saving donors.
Participants at the ceremony paid homage to the deceased organ donors by laying flower baskets to show their respect and remembrance.
China's annual donation rate per million people has kept rising with the figure surging to 4.53 in 2019 from 0.03 in 2010, according to data from the China Organ Donation Administrative Center. As of March 2021, more than 3.15 million people in China had registered as organ donation volunteers.
33 thousand organ donors in China had their will realized upon their death with 99 thousand organs of various kinds donated to save the life of nearly 100 thousand patients suffering from organ failure. Jiangsu registers 1110 cases of successful organ donation.
Wu Yue is one of the beneficiaries of organ transplantation. In May 2013, she had her lung disease cured from a lung transplant surgery and now she has become an organ donation volunteer.
Wu Yue, a voluntary organ donor
Organ donation makes us feel that death is not so cold, but rather warm, and makes you feel that people can make more meaningful choices at the last time in their lives.
Hou Fengzhong, Director of China Human Organ Donation Management Center
Jiangsu initiated body donation and cornea donation for the first time in the country, and it also takes the lead in the country in the organ transplantation technology. Organ donation is not only about donating organs to save others' lives, but also about donating cadavers to serve the development of medicine, and more importantly, organ donation does not mean the end of a life but means new life starts afresh because of the love from the donors.
