Hu Jintao (R front), Chinese president and honorary president of the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC), shakes hands with Pan Meier, a Chinese laureate of the 42nd Florence Nightingale Award, who is a head nurse of a skin disease hospital in east China's Zhejiang Province, during the opening ceremony of the 9th national conference of the RCSC in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 27, 2009. [Xinhua]