Official data shows close to 54-hundred people in China donated more than 14-thousand body parts through the first ten months of this year.
Both figures are the highest ever recorded in China.
Speaking to a forum on organ donation this week in Hunan's capital, Changsha, Gao Xinpu with the government's National Organ Donation and Transplant Committee says a change in attitude is the main reason.
"Over the past five years, public awareness of organ donation in China has grown significantly. The rate of organ donations per every million people here in China has risen from 0.03 in 2010 to 1.24 last year."
The first national regulations on organ donations in China were adopted in 2007, banning the trade in organs.
In 2010, a volun
