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Jiangsu

Over 26,000 organs donated voluntarily

China recorded around 26,700 cases of voluntary organ donations from 2010 to the end of October, a health official said. Over the past decade, the number of annual organ transplants exceeded 20,000 in China, Du Bing, an official with the National Health Commission, said at a forum held over the weekend in Wuxi, Jiangsu province. Currently, China ranks second in the world in the number of organ donations and transplants. According to the China Organ Donation Administrative Center, China's body donation rate rose from 0.03 to 4.53 donors per million in the past decade, with the number of registered body and organ donors exceeding 1.16 million by the end of March.