To further enhance China's intensified drive against terrorism, a university in the mainland said it will start recruiting select students for a newly set subject designed to improve anti-terrorism programs and efforts.

The People's Public Security University of China become the first university in the country to offer anti-terrorism subject that will be available to 80 students across the country that will be picked and screened by the institution's department of public security intelligence.

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The anti-terrorism subject will tackle security risk assessment, international anti-terrorism cooperation, research on terrorist organizations and cybercrimes evidence collection, said a news item published by the Beijing Youth Daily on Sunday.

The university's admission office deputy director, Li Yan, said the offering of the country's first anti-terrorism subject is aimed at effectively fighting violent terrorism considered by the Chinese government as serious threat to national security and social stability.

Since January of this year alone, China saw several incidents of knife attacks, which has killed scores of people and injured several others. The government considered the attacks as terrorism

Last March, China's deputies have made suggestions that the country's top legislature draft a national anti-terrorism law that will further give authorities the power to go after terror groups. China still does not have an anti-terrorism law.

The suggestion was made by the 60-member delegation from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region to the 12^th National People's Congress (NPC). The group urged the NPC to include anti-terrorism law in the list of laws planned for legislation.

The suggestion seeks harsh punishments for terrorists, although it does not provide an effective measure that would prevent or stop terror crimes.

According to the Xinjiang Uygur delegation, the current prosecution procedure for terrorist-related cases is no longer practical because the procedure does not provide clear definition for terrorist activities and the charge for committing terrorist-related crimes are insufficient.

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