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BEIJING---World-renowned Oxford and Cambridge have come to China     (attract) top-rank postgraduate students in cooperation with the China Scholarship Council.
Oxford made its first    (appear) at the China Scholarship Council’s annual International Graduate Scholarship Fair,    opened on Saturday in Beijing. The school wants to encourage excellent Chinese students to consider     Oxford can offer for   academic and professional careers.
"The students came well-prepared with specific questions and were serious about the chance," said Sherwood, director of graduate admissions and funding at Oxford, who will make     two stops for the fair in Wuhan and Shanghai.
The University of Cambridge   (attend) the fair since its first session in 2009, and stresses that it would continue to invest to train students to be problem-solvers.
   Cambridge and Oxford present at the fair in competition for     best and brightest, Osterfield and Sherwood agree that the two universities usually have more interest in cooperation    competition, except in their traditional annual boat race.