According to Taiwanese media reports, after the degree of plagiarism involving plagiarism by former Hsinchu Mayor Lin Zhijian of NTU was revoked, the Chinese University of Taiwan also reviewed whether his master's thesis in 2008 was plagiarized. Chinese University of announced the review results today, confirming that many important parts of Lin Zhijian’s paper were significantly plagiarized. It was determined that Lin Zhijian’s plagiarism was violated by academic ethics. It was recommended to revoke Lin Zhijian’s master’s degree.
Lin Zhijian Picture source Taiwanese media
The Chinese University pointed out at 5 pm that the case of Lin Zhijian's master's thesis, a graduate of the school's master's in-service specialty class, was reported for suspected plagiarism. After the resolution of the review committee, it was determined that the paper did have plagiarism and the circumstances were serious. The review committee recommended that Lin Sheng's master's degree be revoked.
After Lin Zhijian's master's thesis of "National Development Institute" at National Taiwan University was revoked for plagiarism, the University of China also reviewed whether his master's thesis in 2008 was plagiarized. After investigation by the review committee of the review committee, the resolution was completed. This morning, the investigation results will be sent in writing to the whistleblower and the whistleblower by post office express. It is expected that both parties will receive them before the evening this day, so they will be announced in a press release.
Lin Zhijian's dissertation copy began with the report of the Kuomintang Taipei City Councilor Wang Hongwei , saying that Lin Zhijian's master's dissertation published at the University of China in 2008 was suspected of plagiarizing the final report of the Bamboo Department in June of the same year. The University of China accepted it on July 7 and initiated the investigation procedure.
Wang Hongwei revealed that Lin Zhijian's master's thesis "evaluating the satisfaction of residents outside a scientific park in Taiwan in 2008" published by China University of China, suspected of plagiarizing the final report of "evaluating the satisfaction of residents outside a scientific park in Hsinchu Science Park in TCSI mode" in June of the same year. These two papers have extremely high similarity, not only the contents are almost the same, but also the charts, cited documents, appendices, and even typos are almost the same.
According to the relevant information obtained by Wang Hongwei, Hsinchu Science Park announced this out-of-commission handling case in December 2007, with an amount of NT$450,000 NT$; the one who obtained the out-of-commission case was the Department of Science and Technology Management of China University. On June 20, 2008, the Department of Science and Management of China University completed the final report of the Bamboo Department. The hosts signed by Li Youzheng, associate professor of Science and Management of China University, and Wang Minglang. On July 1, just 10 days later, Lin Zhijian passed the master's thesis review. Lin Zhijian’s supervisor is He Lixing, associate professor at China University.
