BEIJING: China will establish a lifelong accountability system to investigate and punish scholars who have committed serious academic fraud, according to new instructions.
The system will allow swift and serious probes into academic fabrication, falsification and plagiarism, even if the offender has moved on to other posts or retired, according to the new rules issued by the general offices of the Communist Party’s Central Committee and the State Council, China’s Cabinet.
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