China completes over 25,000 organ transplants in one year
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In 2025, medical teams in China performed over 25,000 organ transplant surgeries and received donations of organs from over 6,900 deceased donors.
The 2026 Organ Medicine Conference and High-Quality Development Conference for Organ Transplant Hospitals took place in Guangzhou, focusing on quality control and innovation in the field. The event released the China Organ Donation and Transplantation Development Report (2025), which showed a 2.8% increase in organ donations and a 4.5% increase in transplant surgeries compared to 2024.
Over the past decade, from 2015 to 2025, China has completed more than 220,000 organ transplants. Organ transplant specialists discussed the need to strengthen responsibility, quality management, and regulatory compliance to ensure healthy development of the field, particularly as new technologies and requirements emerge. Participants at the conference also launched a project to build a quality management system for organ transplant hospitals.
Experts shared advances in areas like organ preservation, immune regulation, and regenerative organ technology, noting a shift from simply transplanting organs to understanding, supporting, and even rebuilding them. Researchers are also exploring new approaches like “no-ischemia” transplants, which have shown to increase long-term survival rates by 30%.
