National award withdrawn for fraud
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Eskarne [2011-05-20]
The Ministry of Science and Technology recently announced it has withdrawn a national technology award because of academic fraud for the first time in the annual award's history.
The revoked National Office for Science and Technology Award was granted in 2005 to a scroll compressor research program headed by former professor Li Liansheng of the School of Energy and Power Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong University.
Li was later found to have plagiarized and fabricated data in academic papers used in the award-winning program, according to the announcement. His certificate and prize money were then recalled.
In 2007, six professors at Xi'an Jiaotong University accused Li of academic dishonesty. He was finally fired last year.
Source:China Daily