Academicians should not get to hog resources

ON SATURDAY, the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced that Chen Ning Yang, winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize for Physics, and Yao Qizhi, recipient of the 2000 Turing Award, have been admitted as academicians as they have renounced their US citizenships and are now Chinese citizens. China Youth Daily comments:

In China, being honored with the title of an academician brings with it economic interests as well as academic privileges, as the holders will receive many invitations to host research programs.

Actually, some academicians have been invited to host so many programs that they can hardly invest any energy in each of them. Many research institutions know this, but they still keep inviting academicians because there is a blind worship of them among domestic scholars, even residents.

That blind worship has squeezed the resources available for young scholars. Many young scholars are rather creative and have many fresh ideas, but they do not have honorary titles so they cannot get

In its 12th round of discipline inspections, the central inspection group will launch flexible inspections over the Office of the Central Leading Group for Cyberspace Affairs, the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, China Railway Corporation and China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation.

According to a statement released after a meeting onWednesday before the launch of the inspections, flexible discipline inspections are expected to be effective deterrents to corruption. The inspectors stressed that sufficient resources for their research. When they are senior enough to get the resources, they have already passed the golden era in their academic career.

We hope the ongoing reform of the education sector can change this. Those who have made major academic contributions deserve honorary titles and due respect, but that does not mean they should be given the majority of academic resources.

The blind worship of academicians must be abolished, so that young, creative scholars can get sufficient support to achieve academic breakthroughs.

Flexible discipline inspection

judgments should be made on the basis of people’s comments on the work of local committees of the Communist Party of China, and whether the rules for selection and promotion of officials had been implemented properly. More flexible measures should also be introduced in the inspection mechanism to expose and prevent corruption within the discipline authorities.

Since their first round of inspections the central inspection group has been exploring newinspection methods such as the three non-fixed items, namely the team leader is not fixed, the inspection subjects are not fixed and the relationship between the inspectors and inspection subjects is not fixed.

Until now the central inspection group has completed 11 rounds of inspections, covering 247 Party organizations including the local governments of provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, central and State bodies, key State-owned enterprises and central finance organizations.

In the next stage, China will send anti-corruption inspectors to centrally administrated universities including Peking University, Tsinghua University and Nanjing University, and inspection teams will re-examine the work of the InnerMongolia autonomous region as well as Jilin, Yunnan and Shaanxi provinces.

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