Finding the cure for plague of plagiarism

Many argue that systematic transformation of country's academic culture is needed. Xing Yi and Cao Chen report.

Plagiarism became a buzzword in China this year after Zhai Tianlin, a popular young actor, was found to have copied other people's work when obtaining his PhD.

Zhai, 32, received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from the Beijing Film Academy from 2006 to 2018. He was then admitted to a postdoctoral program at Peking University's Guanghua School of Management in Beijing.