Organ Donation

According to the results of a survey released by the ChinaYouthDaily on March 6, around 57.7 percent of respondents were willing to register for organ donation.

Of 2,013 participants, the survey found that 61.5 percent would not object to members of their immediate family donating their organs.

Around 74.9 percent said they had some knowledge of organ donation registration, while 19.2 percent said they had never heard about it.

As of December 24, 2017, a total of 373,536 people in China had registered for organ donation, according to data from the China Organ Donation Administrative Center.

A total of 57.3 percent of the respondents believed that low registration figures were due to traditional beliefs and psychological factors.

Interviewees suggested that China improve its laws and regulations regarding organ donation, expand registration channels and enhance publicity.

Of the respondents, 50.9 percent were born in the 1980s and 24 percent were born in the 1970s, the newspaper said. drive for environmental protection, implementing a national plan to carry out a second census of pollution sources.

The survey, which targets the data from 2017, will help set up a database of key polluters, including their number and distribution in the industrial, agricultural, and residential sectors, as well as the discharge and treatment of pollutants.

Ten years after the country’s first national census of pollution sources, China aims to finish a second survey this year before releasing the results in 2019.

The survey results will serve to strengthen the monitoring of polluters and improve environmental quality.

“A comprehensive and exact survey of pollution data will lay a foundation for winning the tough battle of pollution control,” said Yang Bin, Vice Mayor of Beijing.

Several other provinces and regions, such as Inner Mongolia and Jiangxi, have also started their own pollution censuses.