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Peking University
Peking University is a comprehensive and national key university. The campus, known as "Yan Yuan"(the garden of Yan), is situated at Haidian District in the western suburb of Beijing, with a total area of 2,743,532 square metres (or 274 hectares). It stands near to the Yuanmingyuan Garden and the Summer Palace.

Peking University is proud of its outstanding faculty, including 53 members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), 7 members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), and 14 members of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).

The university has effectively combined research on important scientific subjects with the training of personnel with a high level of specialized knowledge and professional skill as demanded by the country's socialist modernization. It strives not only for improvements in teaching and research work, but also for the promotion of interaction and mutual promotion among various disciplines.

Thus Peking University has become a center for teaching and research and a university of a new type, embracing diverse branches of learning such as basic and applied sciences, social sciences and the humanities, and sciences of medicine, management, and education. Its aim is to rank among the world's best universities in the future.

Virtual Tour
Click the links to take a virtual tour of our school!

Copyright belongs to Peking University, all the images are adapted from http://english.pku.edu.cn/AboutPKU/VirtualTour/

Challenge!
Are you familiar with Chinese? Here's a challenge for you. All the filenames of the virtual tours are in the abbreviation form of PINYIN, but the caption of each tour is in English. With these two clues, can you figure out the names of these locations in Chinese characters? Send your answers to c.z.tian AT gmail.com to check your answer! We'll also reveal the answer at the Jamboree! :]