A woman who successfully received a womb gives birth to a healthy baby boy at the Xijing Hospital in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi province, Jan 20, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua] XI'AN -- A woman who successfully received a womb donated by her mother after a uterus transplant in November 2015 gave birth to a healthy baby boy in northwest China's Shaanxi Province on Sunday. Weighing 2 kg and measuring 48 cm long, the baby is considered to be China's first and the world's 14th baby who was born from a transplanted womb, said doctors with the Xijing Hospital in Xi'an, where the baby was born and the previous uterus transplant was performed. Twenty-six-year-old Yang Hua, the new mother, was born without a uterus but has her own ovaries which produce eggs. When the mother-daughter womb transplant, also China's first human womb transplant, was done in 2015, Yang was 22 and her mother was 43. Doctors perform a cesarean operation on a woman who has successfully received a womb at the Xijing Hospital, Jan 20, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua] Uterus transplants are not new. In the 1960s, Britain and the United States began to experiment with uterus transplants on animals. In 2000, the world's first human womb transplant took place on a 26-year-old woman in Saudi Arabia. The transplanted uterus failed after three months and had to be removed. In 2011, doctors successfully performed a uterus transplant on a woman in Turkey. Two years later, nine women in Sweden successfully received transplanted wombs donated by relatives. Chen Biliang, director of the obstetrics and gynecology department of Xijing Hospital, said uterus transplants still remain a medical challenge in the world today. Photo taken on Jan 22, 2019 shows the baby who was born from a transplanted womb at the Xijing Hospital. [Photo/Xinhua] The uterus, with plenty of tenuous blood vessels, grows in the depths of a woman's pelvic cavity. Therefore, a string of problems including cutting, the structure of the blood vessels during the transplant and strong rejection reactions may occur, said Chen. There are about one million women in China who are suffering from uterine infertility. Due to the limitation of the current assisted reproductive technology and the prohibition of surrogacy in many countries, uterus transplants have provided an effective way for women plagued by uterine infertility to have their own babies, according to Chen. wristbands canadacustom silicone bracelets canadarubber bracelets canadasilicone bracelets canadasilicone wristbands canadacustom wristbands canadacanadian wristbandswristbands canada
Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli has called for more practical efforts to implement President Xi Jinping's important instructions on building the Belt and Road into a new platform for international cooperation.Zhang made the remark in a speech at a meeting that focused on pushing forward the building of the Belt and Road held in Beijing on Tuesday.During the meeting, presided over by Zhang, officials studied and implemented the spirit of the Communist Party of China's 19th National Congress and the Central Economic Work Conference, carried out the important instructions of Xi, and summed up the advances in the Belt and Road.The officials also discussed related documents and arranged the major tasks for the future. Wang Huning, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, also attended.The CPC Central Committee and the State Council consider the building of the Belt and Road to be of great importance, Zhang said, mentioning Xi's words and instructions on proactively pushing Belt and Road cooperation.In the report delivered at the 19th National Congress in October, Xi pledged to actively promote international cooperation through the Belt and Road Initiative."We hope to achieve policy, infrastructure, trade, financial and people-to-people connectivity and thus build a new platform for international cooperation to create new drivers of shared development," Xi said in his report.Zhang also noted the requirement of Premier Li Keqiang to uphold the guide of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, stick to the basic principle of seeking progress while maintaining stability, and push Belt and Road projects to achieve more progress.Zhang urged more effort to reach wider consensus on jointly building the Belt and Road, boost interconnectivity, push the connection of both infrastructure and policies as well as standards, upgrade economic and investment cooperation, deepen international capacity production cooperation, and innovate in finance to improve services.He also highlighted fulfilling social responsibilities, protecting the environment, preventing risks and enhancing security guarantees of Belt and Road projects.
