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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

<strong>PKU</strong> Students Actively Participating<br />

the Legal Aid ―Scale Project‖<br />

<strong>PKU</strong> NEWS 2004—03—26<br />

http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=80695987<br />

<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Beijing, Mar.26th, 2004:―China‘s Excellent Students Legal Aid<br />

Love Activity‖, a national long project organized by China Legal Aid Foundation and<br />

relative departments, organizations and associations, was started in Beijing on<br />

March 24th. Yang Xiaolei, league secretary <strong>of</strong> Law School, <strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>,<br />

accompanied with student representatives from the legal aid association, <strong>Peking</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong>, attended the news conference in the Great Hall <strong>of</strong> the People and also<br />

made a representative speech.<br />

―China‘s Excellent Students Legal Aid Love Activity‖ was called ―Scale Project‖ for<br />

short and the main content <strong>of</strong> this activity is to select over two hundred excellent<br />

students from national law schools through the forms <strong>of</strong> public recruitment, voluntary<br />

enrollment, organizational selection and mass sending, to go to the needed districts<br />

especially western districts to provide legal aid service for the poor and powerless<br />

people and parties <strong>of</strong> special law cases.<br />

Yang Xiaolei, league secretary <strong>of</strong> Law School, <strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>, addressed that it<br />

was <strong>of</strong> great importance for the activity to exert the excellent students‘ advantage <strong>of</strong><br />

law knowledge to help the poor and powerless people, and expressed in behalf <strong>of</strong><br />

leaders <strong>of</strong> <strong>PKU</strong> that <strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> was willing to cooperate with other national<br />

law schools to promote the development <strong>of</strong> the legal aid cause and to realize social<br />

impartiality and justice.<br />

In 2004, it was the first time to organize ―China‘s Excellent Students Legal Aid Love<br />

Activity‖, which was funded by Ford Foundation, the U.S. The selection work began<br />

in December 2003, and received active response from law students all over the<br />

country. At the opening ceremony, the principals also awarded letters <strong>of</strong> appointment<br />

to the selected students.<br />

Edited By : Hu Xiaoling<br />

Translated By : Chang Huili<br />

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