The medical definition of brain death will be adopted in China, possibly from next month, Vice-Minister of Health Huang Jiefu said on Friday.

Huang, who is a liver transplant specialist trained in Australia, and also a member of the CPPCC National Committee, was speaking on the sidelines of the ongoing CPPCC session in Beijing.

The concept of brain death emerged in the 1960s and was defined as the irreversible end of all brain activity.