On January 2, 2016, while people were enjoying the joy brought by the New Year holidays, a precious New Year gift from a selfless donor was delivered. It was a gift of life, a most beautiful gift that gave life back to three patients with end-stage organ failure and allowed several blind patients to see again. New Year’s Gift, Life Extension The Department of Cardiac Surgery of the First Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University had the honor of successfully transplanting this New Year’s gift (a beating heart) into the heart of Mr. Huang (pseudonym). Mr. Huang was diagnosed with “hypertrophic heart disease” more than 10 years ago, and since then he has been traveling around the country to various major hospitals for medical treatment. After years of medication, he was unable to save his gradually failing heart. Frequent consultations and a lot of medication made Mr. Huang and his family exhausted and lost confidence to continue treatment, which made Mr. Huang think of living lightly. After learning that the First Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University had successfully performed a combined heart and lung transplant and that the patient had recovered well after the operation, Mr. Huang had hope to live and decided to wait for a suitable heart at the Department of Cardiac Surgery of the First Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University. But the heart matching with Mr. Huang was very scarce, and after waiting for half a year and experiencing many disappointments and despair, finally on January 2, 2016, a New Year gift came. For him, it was the start of a new life. For Mr. Kwong, his life was extended. A boutique hospital, making every effort to save the heart In September 2015, with the joint efforts of Prof. He Jianxing and Prof. Xie Shaobo, the First Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University successfully performed a combined heart and lung transplant on a patient with primary pulmonary hypertension and heart and lung failure. When visiting the patient after the operation, she said, “I have never tried to breathe so easily”. On January 2, 2016, under the leadership of Prof. Xie Shaobo, after a detailed arrangement, the patient was scrambled to “take the heart” and “replace the heart”, with no compromise. “The heart transplant was successfully performed for Mr. Huang. The replacement heart soon beat in Mr. Huang’s body, and the blood flowed happily under the powerful heart beat. No matter it’s cold or hot, no matter it’s a short weekend or a long New Year holiday, our heart-saving actions are always on the go. The medical and nursing staff of the heart transplant team of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University all gave up their New Year holidays to successfully treat a patient with end-stage heart failure at the beginning of the New Year 2016, who experienced the process of cardiac arrest and resumption, and also had a chance to be reborn. We will not forget our original intention and do our best for the health of our patients. The patient was transferred to the intensive care medicine unit for postoperative care. He was extubated on the second day, and his vital signs are stable and he can communicate normally and is in the process of further recovery. The patient on the first day after surgery.