We are glad to see that there are Representatives such as Zhi- hong Li, who voiced “training nurse practitioners (NPs) in China to improve chronic disease management in primary care settings such as township or rural health centers” at the Fourth session of the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC) [1]. In addition, the Lan- cet, a top medical journal in theworld, published a comment calling for a need of training NPs in China [2] and called upon the full po- tential of nurses in 2019 [3]. We also appeal “offering prescription right to qualified NPs is needed to increase the scope of practice for NPs in China, as there are more than 4 million nurses in the mainland of China, with one-fifth of nurses in the world. Qualified nurses with prescription right will dramatically improve access care for an aging population globally”.
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