The Ministry of Health announced Friday that China's community medical service has seen fruitful results.

"So far, China has set up community medical service centers in 95 percent of its prefecture-level cities and 86 percent of districts under municipalities and county-level cities," Mao Qun'an, the ministry's spokesman told Friday's news conference.

More than 3,400 community medical service centers and nearly 12,000 community hygiene stations have been established so far, according to Mao.

(Xinhua News Agency February 10, 2006)