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Nurse Fan Jijun and his colleagues take a sample of blood for a patient at Yuqing People's Hospital in Yuqing County, southwest China's Guizhou Province , May 11, 2018. China will have over 4.45 million registered nurses by 2020, according to statistics ahead of the International Nurses Day, which falls on May 12 every year. (Xinhua/He Chunyu)