China

It is well known that China is the world's oldest civilization. It is one of the biggest countries in the world. China has an area of about 9.6 million square kilometers which comprises about 6.5% of the world total land area. Its population is 1.3 billion which accounts for 23% of the world's population.

The state of transplantation in China

Kidney transplantation was firstly performed in 1960's in China. Till 1990's, heart, liver, combined kidney pancreas, liver-kidney and heart-lung transplantations had been done in many hospitals nationwide. By the end of 2005, a total of 85,000 transplants had been performed, among which kidney transplants accounted for 74,000, liver around 10000 and heart about 400. China has become the second biggest transplantation country in the world only next to the United States. Kidney transplantation is almost universally successful and recipients can survive long term after the transplants.  The longest survival time for the Chinese kidney transplant recipient has been 28 years, 12 years for liver recipient and 14 years for heart recipient.

Long awaiting list

Since China has the biggest population in the world, so does its population of patients awaiting transplants. Today's major concern is the very inadequate number of organ donors to meet the demand. The awaiting list has become longer and longer. There have now been 1 million end stage renal failure patients in China and the number increased at an average rate of 120,000 a year. Today, 500,000 patients are waiting for kidney transplants, around 100,000 waiting for liver transplants. Unfortunately only a few thousands of them can have transplants every year. At the same time, there have been 4 million Chinese who suffer from leukaemia are waiting for bone marrow transplants most of whom are children.

Having no official transplant recipients organization

Although tens of thousands Chinese are well alive today with organ grafts, we still haven't had an official national transplant recipients organization.  Until now all the activities have been organized by the Chinese Organ Transplantation Society of Chinese Medical Association which only consists of doctors. In 2004,  the 1st Chinese Transplant Games were successfully held in Wuhan. Two years later, in 2006, the 2nd Chinese Transplant Games were held at the same place. The objective of the Games is to promote organ and tissue donation, to provide transplant recipients with opportunity to celebrate the benefits of transplantation and to express gratitude to the families of organ and tissue donors.

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众所周知中国是世界上最古老的文明之国，是世界上最大的国家之一。中国的国土面积约九百六十万平方公里，占全世界土地面积的百分之六点五；中国有大约13亿人口，占世界总人口的百分之二十三。

      中国器官移植现状

      中国器官移植始于上世纪60年代，到90年代时已能在全国各大移植中心开展心、肝、肺、肾、胰肾联合、肝肾联合、心肺联合等所有器官移植手术。截至2005年末，中国已累计开展器官移植85000例，其中开展最多的是肾脏移植约74000例，存活最长时间已达28年；肝移植超过10000例，存活最长时间达12年；心脏移植手术400多例，存活最长的时间接近14年。目前中国已成为仅次于美国的第二大器官移植大国。

      冗长的等待移植名单

      中国是世界上人口最多的国家，所以等待移植的患者在世界上也是最多的。目前我们存在的最主要问题是缺少可用于移植的器官。等待移植病人的名单正在变得越来越长。目前，中国有晚期肾功能衰竭患者100万，同时每年以12万人的速度递增。中国等待肾脏移植的病人有50万，等待肝脏移植的患者超过10万。可惜，在这些众多的等待者中每年只能有几千人可以有幸能接受器官移植。另外，目前中国有400万白血病患者等待骨髓移植，其中大多是儿童。

      至今没有正式的器官移植受者组织

      尽管中国现在已有成千上万的多器官移植接受者，但我们还没有一个正式的接受者组织。我们所有的活动都是由中华医学会器官移植分会组织举行，这是一个全部由全国从事器官移植的医生组成的协会。2004年，中国第一届器官移植接受者运动会成功地在武汉举行，两年后的2006年，在相同的地点举办了中国第二届器官移植受者运动会。举办运动会的目的是向社会宣传器官捐献的意义，展示器官移植接受者的风采并向器官捐献者及其家属表示感谢。