Plagiarism prof stripped of prize
By Chen Jia | China Daily | Updated: 2011-02-11 07:39
BEIJING - A 45-year-old former professor who has been embroiled in a plagiarism scandal for the past three years has been stripped of a top national award by the Ministry of Science and Technology.
In 2005, Li Liansheng, who was a professor at the prestigious Xi'an Jiaotong University in Northwest China's Shaanxi province, won the ministry's second-prize for scientific and technological progress for his apparent research into scroll compressors.
But the ministry said an investigation has confirmed that Li's material had been copied from others and data on the economic benefits of his work was faked.
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