Online registration helps pump up organ donations

More than 300,000 patients wait for transplants in China annually

More than 300,000 people in China have registered as organ donors through an online registration system operated by China Organ Transplantation Development Foundation, a rise of nearly of 40,000 so far this year, the foundation said on Friday.

The number of donors has been increasing rapidly since the system was launched in March 2014, said Zhao Hongtao, deputy secretary-general of the foundation. In 2014, only 17,552 people registered through the system, according to the foundation.