Peking University has continually played the essential role of pioneer in the course of China's progress towards modernization. The university's traditional values of patriotism, progress, democracy, and science, together with the educational style of diligence, exactitude, truthfulness, and innovation, have been passed down from generation to generation.

With an efficient and democratic administration laying emphasis on scientific research and academic freedom, the university has hitherto trained a large number of people with various specialties. According to incomplete statistics, there have been approximately 400 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院:hōngguó Kēxué yuàn ) and the Chinese Academy of Engineering(中国工程院:Zhōngguó Gōnɡchénɡ yuàn ) among the alumni and the faculties of Peking University. A large proportion of prestigious Chinese scholars in the fields of humanities and social sciences have also been connected with Peking University. A whole array of significant research achievements and works of scholarship find their cradles here on the campus. With the incorporation of the former Beijing Medical University, a completely new Peking University came into being on April 3, 2000.

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