The Rhodes Scholarships, regarded as the "global Nobel Prizes for undergraduates," announced the 2021 winners on November 17. Peking University Law School has won the Rhodes Scholar for the second year in a row. Wang Fengquan, Class of 2018, stands out among many applicants and becomes one of the seventh batch of four Chinese Rhodes Scholars to win the prize. He is the fourth Peking University Law School student to win the Prize, following Zhang Wanyu, Class of 2012 (2015), Jordan Gifford-Moore, Class of 2014 (2016), and Lei Qi, Class of 2015 (2020). Peking University Law School has the largest number of Rhodes Scholarship recipients since the Rhodes Scholarship was introduced to Mainland China in 2015. 

Wang Fengquan has outstanding learning and innovation abilities, solid professional accomplishments, and a strong sense of social responsibility and love of his country. He has been awarded the National Scholarship and the Beijing University's "Three Good Students" Model, and has been awarded the Peng Zhen Scholarship, the Future Leaders Scholarship, the International Trade Scholarship, the O'Malley & Myers Scholarship in Law, and the Qiu Haoran Scholarship. Mr. Wang Fengquan attaches great importance to the cultivation of his ability to practice law and has participated in moot court competitions at home and abroad for many times. As a team member, he helped his teammates to win the national championship in the 17th CIETAC Cup International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court Debate Competition. As the team captain, he led his team to win the national Best Book Award in the 18th CIETAC Cup International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court Debate Competition, and the individual Best Debater Award in the round-robin competition. He also led his team to win the global top 32 in the 18th Willem C. Vis East International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court Debate Competition (ranking 8th in the world in round-robin competition), and the individual Best Debater Award (ranking joint 1st among 456 debaters). At the same time, Wang Fengquan is enthusiastic about voluntary service and public welfare. As a member of the SOAR Soar Young Leaders Program, he has conducted research and written reports on the theme of poverty in Beijing, Tianjin and Hong Kong. As a member of the Legal Aid Association of Peking University, he has long organized social practice and legal aid services. Outside of class, Wang Fengquan actively participates in internships and serves as the leader of the Peking University Law School Debate Team. He also has internships at UNCITRAL Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific and King & Wood Mallesons.

Honored as the "Rhodes Scholar", Wang Fengquan shows an outstanding image of the young Peking University law family with profound national conditions, broad international vision and proficient professional skills. It is also an epitome of the excellent achievements of Peking University Law School in cultivating foreign-related rule of law talents. As one of the first batch of "education and training bases for foreign-related rule of law personnel," Peking University Law School has been actively promoting the training of foreign-related rule of law personnel with an innovative spirit and a pragmatic attitude, and has set the goal of training foreign-related rule of law personnel as the comprehensive quality of having a good understanding of and being able to participate in shaping international rules, calmly handle foreign-related legal affairs, and freely participate in international cooperation and competition, and is committed to continuously sending a large number of outstanding and high-quality rule-of-law personnel to China and the world.

In the future, Peking University Law School will continue to deepen the study and implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law. It will continue to enhance the internationalization level of teaching, research, and talent training. With national ingenuity and an international perspective, it will take the historical mission, the future world, and the concern and resolution of Chinese issues and world issues as its goals of internationalization. It will strive to enhance the students' internationalization quality and leadership abilities, guide them to gain a foothold on the land of China, to tell the story of China, to spread the wisdom of China, and to make contribution to leading in globalized legal education and cultivating outstanding rule of law talents with firm ideal and conviction and broad global vision.

Translated by: Zhang Xinyue

Edited by: Li Yixiao