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China's best universities change its charter to emphasize loyalty to the ruling Communist Party.
Preventing unethical behaviour requires regulatory and institutional reforms, as well as lead researchers remaining close to work done in their name, says Futao Huang
The move comes amid concerns over China's influence on Australian campuses, and after major cybersecurity breaches at one institution.
Security services in Brussels say Song Xinning, former head of Confucius Institute at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, worked as a recruiter for Chinese intelligence services.
A Chinese scientist’s startup fled the U.S. after a federal investigation that included a failed sting, airport stops and an unfounded child-porn search.
We scientists must stand up for openness and fairness. Discriminating against someone because of their ethnicity, turning down a collaboration or refusing a visa for a conference on the grounds of nationality, or simply making someone feel unwelcome because they are an immigrant - these are all morally objectionable and practically counterproductive. Such behaviour must cease.
The NIH and the FBI are targeting ethnic Chinese scientists, including U.S. citizens, searching for a cancer cure. Here's the first account of what happened to Xifeng Wu.
The Belt and Road Initiative, China's mega-plan for global infrastructure, will transform the lives and work of tens of thousands of researchers.
The technologies that will be regulated by the ethics committee are often new and are deemed risky either because of safety or moral concerns.
China's programme of innovation-driven development, underpinned by research and technology, has placed new demands on the Chinese scientific community. What role for open access - and the Europe-led Plan S programme?
Offending researchers could face restrictions on jobs, loans and business opportunities under a system tied to the controversial social credit policy.
Officials pledge support for European-led 'Plan S' to tear down journal paywalls - but it's unclear whether China will adopt its policies.
Thousands of abstracts of conference presentations, most by authors in China, were declared flawed.
The government hopes it will improve research quality, but some researchers are sceptical.
Exascale computers promise dramatic advances in climate modeling, genetics studies, and artificial intelligence
Here’s how China rules using data, AI, and internet surveillance.
The obsession with internationalization had resulted in priority being given to overseas scholars and graduates and has diminished graduates of many top domestic universities to second or third-class status.
Revised rules are designed to help researchers focus on their work and compete with their counterparts globally.
This paper examines the development of open knowledge in China through two case studies: the development of Chinese open access (OA) journals, and national-level OA repositories.
New national guidelines spell out punishment for plagiarism, fabrication of data and research conclusions, ghostwriting and peer review manipulation.
The regulations issued by the State Council aim to improve the management, security, accuracy, and openness of scientific data.
