Nursing home app

A MOBILE app which offers access to information about nursing homes in China, the first of its kind, has been put on a trial run in Beijing, according to its developer, the social welfare center under the country’s civil affairs ministry.

Based on the national elderly care service information system, the app can show detailed information about nursing homes including their locations, scale, services provided, charges and evaluation of users, the center said in a statement.

The app can be opened in the instant messaging tool WeChat, instead of needing to be downloaded from app stores, according to the statement.

Organ donation

THE country recorded 23,219 cases of voluntary organ donations, with 64,087 organs donated, from 2010 to the end of February this year, official figures showed Saturday.

Since China made posthumous voluntary donation the only legitimate source of organs in 2015, the country saw an annual increase of over 20 percent in donation cases, said Huang Jiefu, director of the China National Organ Donation and Transplantation Committee.

“China has developed a nation-wide system of voluntary organ donation and achieved healthy and sustainable development in the area,” said Huang at a biotech innovation conference in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province.