Hu Jintao (R front), Chinese president and honorary president of the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC), shakes hands with Wang Wenzhen, a Chinese laureate of the 42nd Florence Nightingale Award, who is a head nurse of the general hospital of the People's Liberation Army navy, during the opening ceremony of the 9th national conference of the RCSC in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 27, 2009. Chinese President Hu Jintao, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, on Tuesday conferred the Florence Nightingale medal on laureated Chinese nurses for their outstanding contributions to healthcare. [Xinhua]