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As the highest rated law school in China, the Peking University Law School has its work cut out to provide the country with enough high-level professionals who can compete in the international legal community.

"This is what we are doing now," Dean Zhu Suli said.

"More young tutors were added in postgraduate studies to teach the most advanced and up-to-date legal knowledge," he said.

Peking University has also started a postgraduate programme for foreign students to learn Chinese law in English.

In addition, the school's master's programme, which began in China in 1995 learning from the US educational system, has added more legal specialities including financial law, intellectual property law, international business law and criminal law.

The results so far seem encouraging, Zhu said. "The employment rate for law master's graduates at our school was 98 per cent this year."

The reason for the school's success, in his opinion, is its goal of training students to be not merely lawyers, judges and prosecutors, but also top-ranking jurists, politicians and high-level officials in companies.

Graduates from the school, he said, "should have a comprehensive knowledge, an independent personality, an independent academic spirit and systematic legal knowledge. It is not just a training organization for lawyers."

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