STATEMENT OF PURPOSE By Qian Yong PROLOGUE Ranked the first in my school at the National Entrance Examination for University, I graduated from high school in 1994 and was admitted to Department of International Politics at Renmin University of China, one of the national leading departments of international politics in China. Full of pride, I began my new term's study. However, I soon found that I was just in the middle of the class because others are also superb students in high school, some of them are even the top ten students in their provinces. Moreover, I faced lots of barricades in the study such as not used to the class approaches of the foreign teachers. I felt very upset at first, but after several days of thinking, I said to myself: It is a challenge to you. Face it and try to win! Four years later, because of my outstanding academic performance, I was accepted into the graduate program of my university without the normally mandatory admission test. Retrospecting the past and hoping for the future, I say to myself again: It is time for you to pursue another challenge, pletely new one! PREVIOUS EDUCATION The undergraduate study really made me a hard period of time, but the harvest was rewarding. During the four years, I devoted myself to politics and economics courses such as Political Science, International Relations, anization, International Finance an
