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This is NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. Here's the news.
The number of registered nurses in China reached almost 3 million by the end of last year, raising the overall share to 2 nurses per 1,000 people.
The total number of the country's registered nurses by the end of last year was double the number in 2005.
That's according to Ma Xiaowei, vice minister of the National Health and Family Planning Commission.
Ma says that doctors used to outnumber nurses in China, but the doctor to nurse ratio have been leveled to one-to-one since the end of last year, and has even reversed in large hospitals.
Ma noted that an increasing number of nurses have expanded their practices to non-communicable disease management, long-term nursing, rehab and hospice care.
However, the official says China still has a shortage of nurses, particularly skilled nurses.
This is NEWS Plus Special English.
Even before Alibaba went online, its founder talked about making the fledgling e-commerce company a global player.
At Alibaba Group's first staff meeting in 1999, a video recorded by an employee shows Jack Ma rallying a workforce of 17 of his friends. They met in a cement-floored apartment in Hangzhou near Shanghai. That was a time when few Chinese people were online; and Ma was an English teacher with no training in business or computers.
Ma says in the video that their "competitors are not in China but in the Silicon Valley". This is included in a documentary about the company "Crocodile in the Yangtze River". The documentary was made by a former Alibaba vice president, Porter Erisman. Ma continues by saying they "can beat government agencies and big, famous companies because of their innovative spirit".
Such Silicon Valley-style bluster was new to China, but Ma delivered. Over the next 15 years, he helped propel Alibaba through technical and financial challenges and a battle with eBay Company to become the world's biggest online bazaar. The company is now planning to list in the United States; and analysts say its initial public offering this year may raise up to 20 billion US dollars.
Last year, more than 200 million customers spent almost 250 billion dollars with merchants on Alibaba's platforms, more than Amazon.com and eBay combined.
Along the way, Alibaba had to develop e-commerce infrastructure its Western counterparts took for granted. Few Chinese people used credit cards, so it created Alipay. This is a payments system that helped online sales win acceptance by allowing wary customers to receive goods before releasing money to sellers. The company worked with shippers to improve their reliability and held trade shows to encourage entrepreneurs to go online.
Today, the company's main platforms are its original business-to-business service Alibaba.com, consumer-to-consumer site Taobao and T-Mall for brands to sell to consumers.
You're listening to NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing.
The People's Public Security University of China will recruit 80 students across the country for its newly set subject of anti-terrorism.
The university says the move was aimed at facilitating the fight against violent terrorism which is seriously threatening national security and social stability.
The subject is set under the department of public security intelligence. Major courses include research on terrorist organizations, international cooperation against terrorism, security risk assessment as well as reconnaissance and evidence collection of cybercrime.
Practical courses are also offered to enable students to master tactics for dealing with terrorist attacks.
