Members of the medical staff honor an organ donor in an operating room at the Beijing You'an Hospital. [Photo provided to China Daily] GENEVA - The ongoing 71st World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva on Thursday shows high appreciation for the value of China's model and experience in organ transplantation. The WHA meetings focused on the universal coverage of organ transplantation, with delegates from China, Spain, Russia, Uruguay and Qatar sharing their experience and ideas on the topic. Huang Jiefu, head of China's National Organ Donation and Transplantation Committee and chairman of China Organ Transplantation Development Foundation, gave a keynote speech titled The Chinese Organ Transplantation Undertaking in Achieving One Belt & One Road Initiative. He said that China's model of organ donation and transplantation features strong government support for legal, administrative and health sectors, and the progress of capacity building in organ transplantation clinical service and technical development. China is now implementing a national anti-organ trafficking surveillance system with joint effort of health, legal and law enforcement authorities, which, based on available data, may serve as an example of an operational mechanism to combat organ trafficking for the rest of the world, Huang added. According to Huang, the final Declaration of the Ethics in Action Meeting held in Vatican in March this year endorsed China as a model for regulating organ transplantation and also as a reference on the issue for other member states of the United Nations. Huang said that China is willing to share its experience with the rest of world under the Belt and Road Initiative, while at the same time working to improve the organ donation and transplantation system in China by benefiting from the highly valued experience of other countries. As an official appreciation for China's support to the World Health Organization (WHO) in promoting universal coverage of organ transplantation, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said thank you China to Huang in Chinese after the meeting. The 71st annual WHA, held in Geneva from Monday to Saturday, is a gathering of nearly 4,000 delegates from the WHO's 194 member states and partner organizations. The assembly is the WHO's highest decision-making body and determines policy for the organization. rubber arm bandscustom fidgetminecraft bracelet bulkdebossed wristbandwristbands onlinerubber wristbands in bulksilicone keychain
HONG KONG - An increasing number of filmmakers from countries along the Belt and Road are seeking business opportunities at the Hong Kong International Film and TV Market (FILMART), the event's organizer said on Tuesday.The FILMART, in its 22nd edition this year, has attracted over 850 exhibitors from 37 countries and regions, and over 360 of them are from countries along the Belt and Road, representing a 10-percent increase from last year, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) told Xinhua.Many of these exhibitors at the FILMART said they regard Hong Kong as a gateway to markets between the Chinese mainland and the rest of Asia, as well as between Asia and the rest of the world.It's important to be here especially for people who do sales and acquisition in Asia, because in Hong Kong you get to see and know all the content that is made and being distributed in Asia, Anna Pokorskaya of Russian animation studio Wizart said. Definitely Hong Kong is a gateway.The Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative, proposed by China in 2013, aims to build trade and infrastructure networks connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along the ancient Silk Road routes.At the pavilion of the Philippine Film Export Service Office, which includes 25 Philippine exhibitors, the office's executive director Don Gervin Arawan told Xinhua that Philippine companies have been participating in the FILMART for years, and besides promoting Philippine films, the Philippine exhibitors also want to have Chinese film products in their country.Hong Kong is a mixture. It's where the Chinese mainland and other Asian countries meet the world. And the language barrier is lower here, he said.Keven Lo, official representative of Thailand company JKN Global Media, said his company used to purchase content at the FILMART as a visitor for years, but this year as an exhibitor we are actually purchaser, distributor and seller of content.Lo said his company is expanding its original focus from market inside Thailand to other countries in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong, recognized for its internationally-based clientele, is actually a good base to present for the first time into the international market.
