Objective To investigate the current status and requirement of hospital and community nurse in urban district of Fujian Province, and to provide the basis for schools to cultivate needed person.Methods By stratified random sampling, 58 hospitals and 71 community health service centers or stations' directors or vice directors in urban of Fujian were investigated by questionnaires.Results The ratio of hospital doctors to nurses was 1:1.9, and the ratio of hospital sickbeds to nurses was 1:0.55, and the ratio of community doctors to nurses was 1:0.94.The academic degrees makeup of the hospital and community nurse was on the low side, and the technical secondary school's degrees took the largest proportion (54.89% ).The academic degree makeup among community nurses was lower than that among hospital nurses (P <0.01).The hospitals and communities need junior college graduates mostly (43.04% ) , and the hospitals' demanding quantity of high degree graduates was more than communities' (P <0.01).Anticipated demanding quantity of junior college graduates would take the largest proportion (50.32% ) and anticipated hospitals' demanding quantity of high degree graduates would be larger than communities' (P < 0.01 ).90% of the questioned hospitals and communities demand their paramedic persons with good capabilities of professional ethics, working attitude, theoretic knowledge, operation skill, language performance, interpersonal communication, harmonious cooperation, health education etc.Conclusions The quantity of the hospitals and communities nurses will be increased properly.The nurse of the academic and higher degrees needs to be improved.We should speed up to cultivate the person with specialty of nursing capabilities, further the reform of courses, and bring up the highly qualified and skillful paramedic persons to meet the urgent needs of the community, and to fulfill the demands of hospitals and communities sanitation service. Key words: Nursing talents; Current situation investigation; Requirement analysis