"Criminal law" is a law education foundation courses. Application of law subjects as students first contact, be the first to bear the brunt of the criminal law teaching, carrying guide students perceptual law, which entered into the field of law, its importance is self-evident. But at the same time, the development and reform of teaching situation also presents a challenge to the criminal law course. Peking University law school professor vice president in recent years under the leadership of Chen Xingliang, the research and practice of teaching reform focused on "criminal law" course, and achieved fruitful results: 2005 "criminal law" teaching reform project won the national teaching achievement award in 2006, "criminal law" course as a national excellent courses. Recently, the reporter interviewed Professor Chen Xingliang.

　　Reporter: what is the main content of the Peking University teaching reform in the criminal law and outstanding characteristics? Why should this reform?
Chen Xingliang: Peking University law school "criminal law" course teaching reform is the main content: the new guiding ideology, provides a new way of teaching, create a new teaching content, and equipped with new teaching materials, strong teachers, promoting the teaching of criminal law science research progress. The knowledge system of China's present criminal law, is established on the basis of the criminal law of 1979, Yang Chun wash, Beijing University Law School professor Gan Yupei published the first generation of the criminal law textbook "general provisions of criminal law" in 1981, has triggered a major scientific impact. Today, the criminal law practical teaching has changed. With the substantial increase in the subject of law, especially the large increase of civil law and economic law knowledge, criminal law teaching hours is compressed greatly. In this case, how to complete the criminal law knowledge to teach their students, is a difficult task. Therefore, need to use some supplementary teaching, lectures, tours, in addition to increased criminal case studies and practical courses. In short, the criminal law courses should focus on the development of criminal legislation, criminal justice and teaching reform, advancing with the times.

　　Reporter: so specific to the teaching practice, how to embody the idea of teaching reform in various areas?
Chen Xingliang: as a course in undergraduate education, from teaching content, should focus on the criminal law basic theory introduction and explanation, and the criminal law interpretation and teaching, teaching of science of criminal law that specification; in guidance of learning methods, should be focused on criminal law interpretation note, while taking into account the need to deepen and develop talent research high level knowledge, should be extended to the philosophy of criminal law, criminal jurisprudence direction; in the range of learning should be based on reality, Chinese norms of criminal law, in order to understand the sequence of events that law, and legislative trends, should be appropriate to extend the related contents of some criminal history and foreign criminal law. On the teaching method, taking into account the teaching object to just contact to the legal knowledge soon young students, explain the basic theory of criminal law should pay attention to case teaching method of intervention, inspire their students' interest and enthusiasm in learning, to advocate for young people fresh and lively teaching thinking, theoretical knowledge of difficult to understand and accept; in the teaching material construction, should adapt to the new teaching method system, reflect the systematic and advanced knowledge.

　　Reporter: I know that you do a lot of work in the construction of criminal law in the textbooks, please talk about the specific aspects of the situation and play a role in reform in education.
Chen Xingliang: teaching material is a prerequisite for good teaching effect. On the one hand, it reflects the achievements of teaching reform, on the other hand, the development of excellent teaching material can promote teaching reform. The "criminal law" teaching material construction course has formed the systematic configuration. The core material is my editor of the "law", this book is the content of the domestic criminal law textbooks with the latest and most complete, one of the most perfect system of textbook, collected from 1997 June to 2003 revision of criminal law are all effective legislative interpretation, judicial interpretation, in a crime writing style, the crime in detail, specific to three crime, guilt, crime quantity body of the traditional classification of crimes, hierarchy, outstanding key, in order to facilitate the students grasp and use knowledge. Supporting materials are prepared by Yang Chunxi Yang Dunxian, "China penal theory"; the "criminal law", "general ontology of science of criminal law", "criminal law" case tutorial, which formed the core of knowledge based on teaching materials, a complete knowledge with teaching knowledge and case teaching resource related.

　　Reporter: the curriculum reform under the criminal law, what what you need teaching resources, improve teaching conditions, which is relatively complete and mature?
Chen Xingliang: must include the construction of teaching resources, teaching material and teaching method reform to adapt to flexible use of various teaching methods, emphasis on teaching reform of criminal jurisprudence, negative mode change echo what the books say indoctrination. Therefore, the convenience to make full use of the modern education technology, using the projector, multimedia courseware, pictures, maps, videos and other auxiliary teaching, organize students to watch the relevant legal publicity and education, major case trial live, to stimulate the students' interest and motivation in learning, improve teaching effect. At the same time, the use of the Internet to provide online courseware, teaching video, information exchange, view debate etc..
       In addition, we also presided over the criminal activities of the forum, since 1999, once a month, has carried out 38, lecture of "rule of law", become the mission of "rule of law", "rule of speech interface" three works, as students learn extracurricular auxiliary criminal law teaching material.