2.2. The pilot project of DCD has been carried out smoothly

In March 2012, the National Health and Family Planning Commission (formerly the Ministry of Health) and the Red Cross Society jointly held a wrap-up meeting on the organ donation pilot work throughout the country in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, and summarized their experience in organ donation work [15]. After 2 years of pilot work, under the joint promotion of the Red Cross and the National Health and Family Planning Commission, the Pilot Regions had to do a lot of work and achieved initial success in setting up sound organizations, applying for specialized agencies, revising of laws, exploring relief mechanisms, standardizing work processes and coordinating training, guiding the public in a scientific way and carrying out scientific assessments. As of March 15, 2012, the pilot completed a total of 207 donations, contributing 546 organs and saving more than 500 lives [16]. In August 2012, the National Health and Family Planning Commission and the Red Cross jointly issued the "Opinions on Further Promoting human organ donation work" (Zhonghong Zi, No. 39) in order to continue this steady progress. It specified the guiding ideology, basic principles, work objectives and specific measures for human organ donation. It also announced the organizational structure and responsibilities of the organ donation system and the organ donation process after the death of Chinese citizens, including eight important aspects, which are registration, donation evaluation, donation confirmation, organ acquisition, organ distribution, body processing, memory and humanitarian aid [17]. On March 25, 2013, the National Health and Family Planning Commission and the Red Cross jointly held a video conference on organ donation work throughout the country, demanding to carry our organ donation work in the whole country this year [18]. As of August 14, 2014, 169 units completed 2107 human donations and 5787 organs were donated, saving the lives of more than 5000 patients by transplants [19].
