China's Science and Technology Minister Xu Guanhua said on Tuesday that in order to control frequent academic frauds, China will establish a "stained" archive of academic frauds and considers publicizing investigation results of such cases.
"The Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) will investigate all academic fraud cases. At present, MOST is considering unveiling the results to the public and planning to set up a 'stained' archive of those who committed academic frauds."
During the lately closed National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Xu had explicitly stated that China should investigate all academic fraud cases "in a thorough and determined manner" in order to avoid embarrassing situations similar to the Hwang Woo-suk scandal of South Korea.
Besides reinforcing control on academic frauds, MOST has instituted 60 new policies and measures in terms of assessment and awarding of sci-tech discoveries to encourage innovation and boost scientific and technological development of China.
(China News Service March 17, 2006)
