Accurate assessment of the kidney from donation after citizen′s death, can avoid the waste of the donor kidney, reduce the incidence of postoperative delayed graft function or renal allograft primary nonfunction. Naturally, donor kidney will be examined through visual observation, donor risk score, selective renal biopsy, parameters of hypothermic machine pefusion, as well as comprehensive judgement on molecular diagnosis, and biomarker detection for blood, urine and perfusion solution. However, accurate quality assessment of donor kidney has get to be improved. At present, organ donation after citizen′s death in China is growing rapidly. It is very necessary to formulate unified quality assessment standards to guide the national organ donation, and promote the more standardized, effective and safe clinical application.