The venue of the 8th National Forum for Leadership of Blood Service in 2025 was officially announced  at the closing ceremony of the 7th National Forum on June 29, 2023.

The National Forum for Leadership, held by CSBT in odd years, serves as a platform to share experience and promote exchanges in new concepts and measures of construction and development of blood establishments. So far, seven successful Forum have been held. CSBT released an official notice on April 6 to solicit the organizer of the 8th National Forum in 2025. It was ultimately decided that Lianyungang Red Cross Regional Blood Bank to be the host for the 8th National Forum in 2025.

On the same day, the forum flag was passed on by President Zhu Yongming from SU Changshan, Director of Nanning Blood Center, the organizer of the 7th Forum, to Wang Bo, Director of Lianyungang Red Cross Regional Blood Bank, the organizer of the 8th Forum.

Reported by the CSBT Secretariat   

Translated by LIU Ziyu 

Reviewed by MA Ling, JIANG Nizhen

From June 28 to 29, the 7th National Forum for Leadership of Blood Establishment was held in Nanning. At the meeting, the latest Blue Book of Blood Service and The Most Beautiful & the Most Intelligent Blood Donation Sites, the CSBT's brand activities, were released. The venues of the 12th National Congress of CSBT in 2024 and the 8th National Forum for Leadership of Blood Service in 2025 were announced.

President ZHU Yongming expressed gratitude to the Committee on Development of Middle and Small-Sized Blood Station, Nanning blood center, and all the volunteers for their hardworking during the forum. He also expressed gratitude to the support from corporate entities. In particular, He extended his heartfelt thanks to all the leaders, experts and delegates who spare time out of their busy schedules to attend the forum .

Nearly 600 registered participants were from blood establishments, transfusion associations and military hospitals in 29 provinces, municipalities as well as Hong Kong. Additionally, there were around 300 corporate representatives and forum volunteers.

The forum included 1 keynote speech, 13 thematic reports, 6 submission speeches and 41 poster presentations. There were also 49 business booths in the forum.

Reported by the CSBT Secretariat   

Translated by SHI Lili;  

Reviewed by MA Ling, JIANG Nizhen

On June 29 2023, Blue Book of Blood Collection and Supply Services --Annual Report on Development of China’s Blood Collection and Supply Industry (2023), was officially released.

HU Wei, the chief editor, reviewed the compilation process of the blue book in his speech. From the discussion on the outline and content at the first preparatory meeting of editorial committee, to the revisions, expert review and proofreading of the initial drafts, everyone overcame various difficulties to achieve the goal of releasing the Blue Book in the first half of the year for the first time since its inception.

WANG Yuxia, deputy chief editor of City and Green Development Branch of Social Sciences Academic Press, the publisher of the Blue Book, mentioned in her speech that  blue book compiled by CSBT is an annual intellectual report that analyzes, studies and predicts the development of blood transfusion industry from a holistic perspective. It provides important references for the operation and development of transfusion industry as well as for the discipline construction of transfusion medicine. 

Annual Report on Development of China’s Blood Collection and Supply Industry (2023), as the eighth volume of Blue Book of Blood Collection and Supply, discusses the development of blood collection and supply as well as clinical blood transfusion in 2022.

President ZHU Yongming, Chief Editor HU Wei and Deputy Chief Editor WANG Yuxia unveiled the Blue Book.

Reported by the CSBT Secretariat

Translated by HU Wenjia

Reviewed by MA Ling, JIANG Nizhen

The venue of the 12th National Congress of CSBT in 2024 was officially announced at the closing ceremony of the 7th National Forum for Leadership of Blood Service on June 29 2023. 

The national congress held in even years by CSBT is an academic event attracting the most participants and representing the highest level of influence. So far, eleven successful congresses have been held. To ensure the convening of the upcoming 12th Congress aiming at promoting the development of transfusion medicine, CSBT released an official notice on April 6, 2023 to solicit the organizer of the 12th Congress in 2024. After evaluating the justifications, venue and safeguards, it was decided that Anhui Province Blood Center to be the host of the 12th Congress in 2024.

The congress flag of CSBT, a kind of spirit and inheritance, made its debut on the same day, and was handed over by President ZHU Yongming to HU Xiaoyu, director of Anhui Province Blood Center.

Reported by the CSBT Secretariat   

Translated by FENG Yasong 

Reviewed by MA Ling, JIANG Nizhen

On June 14 2023, World Blood Donor Day (WBDD) again be celebrated throughout the world. The theme of 2023 WBDD is “Gather energy, donate blood, and convey love”, and the slogan is “Give blood, share life”.

At 8 p.m. on June 14, the light show for WBDD jointly hosted by CSBT, CCTV new media platform, and Shenzhen Sharing Network Co., Ltd. was broadcast live on CCTV channel of CSBT website.

At this year, the proposal for the light show received an enthusiastic response. Both the participating units and cities had increased significantly. A total of 74 units from 68 cities in 26 provinces attended the campaign. Among them, 64 cities displayed light shows with touching slogans to pay tribute to blood donors, allowing more people to feel their love and courage. The shining and bright lights resembled the beautiful souls of voluntary blood donors. Each bright light illuminated the life of  each patient!

This three-hour broadcast had garnered over one million viewers and interactions.

Reported by the CSBT Secretariat  

Translated by ZHU Rui；

Reviewed by MA Ling, JIANG Nizhen

On June 6, on the occasion of World Blood Donor Day, ZHU Yongming, the President of CSBT, dressed in a red T-shirt symbolizing blood and life, arrived at Shanghai Blood Center and successfully completed his apheresis platelets donation, the 74th blood donation.

As an advocate and promoter of domestic blood donation, President ZHU Yongming has been participating in blood donation for decades, and has been awarded many honors, such as the National Blood Donation Gold Award, the Shanghai Blood Donation Magnolia Award, the National Individual Award for Blood Donation Promotion, and 2020-2021 National Blood Donation Bronze Award.

Give blood, share life. Blood donation is not only the embodiment of love, the devotion for blood transfusion, but also respect for life.

On the same day, under the influence of President ZHU, the secretariat of CSBT also commit apheresis platelets donations. Gathering energy, donating blood, and conveying love!

Reported by the CSBT Secretariat;

Translated by ZHU Shengjiang; 

Reviewed by FENG Chenchen, JIANG Nizhen

Nation forum of intelligent blood construction was held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province on May 17. The conference aimed to further enhance the exchanges and cooperation among blood practitioners in the field of information technology, and to showcase the achievements in the construction of intelligent blood establishments, and also to promote the sustainable development of blood transfusion in China. 

To further promote the protection of blood donors' privacy, Expert Consensus on the Protection of Blood Donors’ Privacy was released at the opening ceremony. In addition, the forum introduced the artificial intelligence assistant for electronic blood donation certificates, named "Xiao Xue" (Little Snow). Invented by Zhejiang Blood Center, "Xiao Xue" is a Q＆A robot used to answer questions about electronic blood donation certificates.

Leaders from the National Health Commission and the Health Commission of Zhejiang Province, as well as Hu Wei, Director of Zhejiang Province Blood Center, had made wonderful speeches at the conference. 

Reported by the Zhejiang Province Blood Center   

Translated by TANG Xinyi;   

Reviewed by MA Ling, JIANG Nizhen

On May 12, the experience exchange conference of blood transfusion associations hosted by CSBT was held in Anhui province. The conference was aimed at urging local blood transfusion associations to provide high-quality services to the entire society, including government departments and association members, by developing their own advantages and integrating various resources, thus promoting the high-quality development of the blood transfusion industry. The conference content was rich and practical, including theoretical training, efforts introduction, experiences sharing, performance demonstration of associations, publications, design products and other achievements.

President ZHU Yongming summarized that this exchange and discussion in Anhui were a good beginning and should be carried out regularly in the future. Let's join hands and develop together!

Reported by the CSBT Secretariat;                                           

Translated by YE Xiayan;

Reviewed by FENG Chenchen, JIANG Nizhen

May 10, 2023 was the 7th China Brand Day. On the morning of May 14th, the Industry Association Brand Building Forum themed Branding Leads High Quality Development was hosted by Macroeconomic Magazine of the National Development and Reform Commission. The list of the First Brand Association Growth Plan was released at the meeting, and CSBT was selected as one of the typical cases. ZHU Yongming, the President of CSBT, was invited to attend the forum and jointly released the Proposal on Industry Brand Building with the organizers and the other selected industries, associations and chambers of commerce.

Since 2017, CSBT has been making self-evaluation an important duty for council members and branches to fulfill. The results of self-evaluation are announced through official website and WeChat, and are subject to supervision by all members. Five years later, the annual self-evaluation has evolved from a task to an institutional work. These changes and this award cannot be separated from the performance and cooperation of all members of CSBT.

CSBT strives to build a mission-clear, governance-effective, service-oriented and self-disciplined association，establish a good brand image，and become a model for national industry associations and chambers of commerce in the whole society.

Reported by the CSBT Secretariat;

Translated by LI Wanli;

Reviewed by FENG Chenchen, JIANG Nizhen