Rong Pumin, a 25-year-old PhD candidate in maritime law at Dalian Maritime University, is still cherishing her recent trip to a summer school in Germany.

Together with 36 other students, judges, lawyers and maritime law experts from 32 countries, she spent about three weeks on the premises of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg.

Although three universities in the Chinese mainland are able to cultivate undergraduate talent in maritime law, sending students to learn abroad and gain experiences in international maritime law is an important step, experts say.