China's first anti-explosion laboratory, a facility for teaching, training and scientific research, was put into use Friday in the Fuzhou Command Academy of Armed Police in Fujian Province, east China.
  
Equipped with some 400 kinds of explosion devices, teachers and researchers can conduct nearly 1,000 kinds of tests and training programs covering principles of detonation, simulated explosion and defusing of explosives.
  
The anti-explosion simulation system, which stores some 2,000 cases of explosions, can also monitor the temperature, heart-beating, blood temperature and breathing of explosive defusing personnel.
  
The academy, which is China's only school of higher learning that offers an anti-explosion course, has trained more than 600 explosive defusing professionals for the army, the armed police and police in the past decade.

(Xinhua News Agency July 16, 2005)