Across China: Philanthropic organ donors commemorated by recipients

CHONGQING, April 4 (Xinhua) -- Jiang Huan didn't understand her father's decision to donate his organs until an organ donation coordinator told her that the transplantation surgery was successful and helped save the patient's life.

Every Tomb-sweeping Day, or the Qingming Festival in the Chinese lunar calendar, which falls on Tuesday this year, families of organ donors and the recipients and coordinators gather at the Chongqing Organ Donation Memorial Park in Bishan District of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. Holding commemorative ceremonies and laying wreaths in solemnity, they pay tribute to the departed for their generosity and philanthropic decision.