Chapter 1 General

Article 1 The Regulations are drawn up for the purpose of reinforcing academic atmosphere building, regulating academic conduct, and promoting the University’s science development. 　　

Article 2 The Regulations advocate down-to-earth, scrupulous, and honest academic atmosphere, expecting to steer faculty and students to shape right academic ethics, adhere to academic standards, oppose dishonesty, and punish violations. 　　

Article 3 The Regulations apply to all faculty members, students and staff involved in teaching, research and management.　　

Chapter 2 Basic Academic Regulations　　

Article 4 Consciously adhere to national laws, rules, regulations and academic standards. 　　

(1) Abide by laws, rules and regulations. Academic conduct should adhere to the Constitution, General Principles of The Civil Law, Copyright Law, Property Law, Regulations for the Protection of Computer Software, and Guidelines on Reinforcing the Construction of Academic Ethics, Guidelines on Scientific Employees’ Conduct, Academic Regulations on Philosophy and Social Science Research in High-Level Institutions issued by Ministry of Education, Ministry of Science and Technology.　　

(2) Respect intellectual property. Scientific research must respect intellectual property, and adhere to the criteria of academic quotation, whose sources must be acknowledged and which should not be presented as the main body or contents. The re-quoted work should clarity its sources, too. Collaborative work should list the authors in the order of agreement, contribution or general rules. It also should be reviewed by all named authors before publishing and the authors are bound to assume matched responsibility of the work. Project leader (considered as the first author or contact author) shoulder the primary responsibility.　　

Faculty should respect students’ work. Asking for co-authorship is not allowed if it is the students’ independent endeavor. Students (both undergraduates and graduates), who participate in the supervisor’s research projects or conduct research under the guidance of the supervisors, should share the intellectual property rights unless agreed upon otherwise. Such published work should list the supervisor as co-author in accordance with his or her willingness. Contributors without being named must be acknowledged properly.  　　

 (3) Abide by research ethics. Research subjects must be respected and their legal rights should be protected. Preserve their privacy and the right to know. Respect local culture and custom. Respect the religion and behavior. Prohibit discriminatory or humiliated words and concepts. Abide by the regulations of experiments involved with animal subjects.　　

(4) Ensure the objectiveness and accuracy of data. It should be subject and honest in project design, application, data collection and analysis, results publication, and confirmation on participators’ contribution, ascertaining the objectiveness, rationality, and validity of data source, ensuring the honesty and completeness of research procedure and data recording, withstanding the re-test. The published results must be true, ensuring the completeness and accuracy of statistical data, without exaggerating the results or performance. Acceptance and correction to the mistakes and shortages existed in publications must be appropriately made.　　

(5) Pursue objectiveness and impartiality of academic evaluation. Evaluate academic rightly and ensure the objectiveness and fairness. Adhere to rules instead of compromising to private relations. Adhere to scientific and reasonable evaluation standards, publishing review opinions impartially, which should be precise and accurate. Resist the influence and interference of negative social atmosphere, preventing giving in to personal relations on academic evaluation. Correctly treat academic critics and doubts, handling the academic disputes rationally. 　　

(6) Adhere to academic commitment. For legally funded projects, their research output should align with the funding application. The revising can only be proceeded after prior negotiation with sponsors was made and permission was obtained. Otherwise, the submitted research output must align with the agreed commitment or funding. Concerning projects unable to meet the commitment due to unexpected reasons, they must be notified to sponsors in time and countermeasures should be negotiated. All of these cases should also be reported to research management division.    　　

 (7) Consciously preserve national security. Establish the firm consciousness of national security, adhering to relevant rules. Reinforce management on research projects involved with national security and social stability. The application of confidential research content, data, resources and output are limited in the project team, prohibiting free publication and dissemination. Such application and circulation should be approved by managers and kept record. With regard to significant research findings with enormous social impact and requiring discussion or evaluation, they must be discussed and approved by management department before publication.　　

(8) Maintain the purity of scientific research. Correctly treat direct, indirect or potential interests involved in research. Appropriately deal with relationship among stakeholders, such as researchers and sponsors, research team and research subjects. Pursuit of improper interests beyond research is prohibited.  　　

Chapter 3 Violations of Academic Integrity　　

Article 5 Everyone is prohibited from the following conduct:　　

(1) academic theft, presenting other people’s academic opinions, ideas or findings as one’s own. Apply academic information gathered from peer review or other review without permission. Improperly gather other’s unpublished presentations during academic activities. Without permission, students’ behavior of publish the teachers’ lectures (including syllabus, PPT, main opinions) is also deemed as academic theft.　　

(2) plagiarism, using other’s either published or unpublished academic opinions or works as his or her own without quotation. Use other’s literature without citation or merely paraphrase without illustration.　　

(3) manipulation of experimental data, falsifying data or altering data according to research conclusions. Through manipulating the experiment (including material, equipment or procedure), adjust or omit data and the findings to fit expectations. This conduct does not include honesty mistake, or honesty gap in explaining and judging data, yet such honesty should be founded.　　

(4) falsification, providing faked academic experience and achievement in curriculum vitae when applying for projects, promotion, awards, publication, and etc, providing faked experts evaluation, awards certificates or other proof for academic capability, inventing academic title, faking pervious research output for project application, faking other’s signature, stealing other’s academic output.　　

(5) inappropriate authorship, listing those non-contributors as authors, or co-authoring without the permission.      　　

 (6) information leakage, for the purpose of commercial interest or other private reasons, without the agreement of project leaders (or department leaders, supervisors, sponsors, co-authors, etc.) or failing to adhere to the contract, leaking experiment or survey data, unpublished research contents and findings to competitors, peers or other people who may negatively influence the research.　　

(7) obstruction to other’s research, adopting illegitimate methods to interfere and impede other’s research, including intentional damage or detention of the other’s indispensable equipment, documents, research proof, files and other relevant property. Intentionally delay the reviewing and evaluation of other’s projects or research, or propose unable-to-be-proved judgment and unfounded extreme conclusions. Set obstructs on reviewing of competitive projects or outputs. 　　

(8) complicity, participating or conspiring in concealing academic stains, including participating in other’s academic forgery, and conspiring in concealing other’s improper academic conduct.　　

(9) untrue complaint. Out of private purpose, fabricate facts, distort, and accuse others without evidence. Also, in the absence of evidence, online disseminate or post other’s academic ethics.　　

(10) other misconducts against academic standards, including submitting the same work to two journals, obtaining academic awards improperly, intentionally distort other’s academic opinions, concealing other’s misconducts (including but not limited to fail to report the students’ plagiarism in dissertation or published articles even knowing the fact).             　　

Article 6 Academic misconducts should be avoided. The misconducts can be defined as conducts against academic regulations due to mistakes in technology or lacking of necessary knowledge, including insufficient data proofreading, inaccurate or incomplete quotation, being co-authored by without acknowledgement, and etc.　　

Article 7 Those in power in academia are forbidden to abuse such power, including inappropriately obtaining reputation, obtaining academic resources for themselves or stakeholders, intruding or depriving other’s academic resources, repressing, attacking or revenging critics or complainants.     　　

Chapter 4 Investigation Procedure of Violations　　

Article 8 The University’s Academia Construction Committee (ACC) is the sub-branch of Academic Committee, being responsible for the University’s academia construction and management, handling the compliant, conducting the investigation, proposing the investigation conclusions and sanctions. The Secretariat is the standing arm of ACC, in charge of its routine affairs and investigations. Academia investigation is the independent academic management activity of ACC. Any administrative organ should not interfere with the investigation procedure or influence the results. Everyone is entitled to complain academic misconducts. When receiving such complaints, ACC should identify the relevant evidence and clues provided by the complainant and determine the admissibility. For academic problems required to investigate by senior-level organizations, management departments or relevant organizations, the Secretariat should determine the investigation methods in accordance with actual situation and the investigation conclusions should be submitted to those organizations after the approval of Director Committee of ACC.　　

Article 9 Taking up a complaint.　　

(1) ACC should take the initiative of conducting investigation on problems discovered during academia construction and routine management.　　

(2) For events about breaching academic regulations reported on journal, magazine, broadcast, television, internet and other media, ACC should take the initiative of contacting the reporters, conduct the investigation in time and publish the results and sanctions, so as to purify the academic environment and maintain the University’s reputation.　　

(3) If the complainant reports with real name, ACC should immediately take up the complaint and investigate it. If the complaint is unfounded, ACC should require the complainant to supplement relevant materials and evidence, and then render the judgment on the admissibility.　　

(4) If the complainant reports anonymously, yet with evidence or clues, ACC can take up the complaint immediately and start the investigation. Generally, anonymous complaints unfounded will not be taken up. However, the anonymous complaints potentially having significant impact on the University’s reputation, even if clues and reliable evidence are not provided by the complainant, ACC should conduct the investigation in time.　　

Article 10 Investigation. For accepted complaints, ACC should immediately initiate the investigation.　　

(1) For complaints reported by complainant with real name, the investigators should contact him or her, asking for supplementing information.　　

(2) Investigators should talk with the accused, listen to their appeal and ask for corresponding materials and evidence. Refusal to provide the necessary materials is not allowed.　　

(3) With clear evidence and clues, ACC should ask academic committee of relevant departments (Graduate School) to investigate within 10 days, propose sanctions and submit written report to ACC. ACC can authorize experts, organize team or appoint professional person to investigate. 　　

(4) The confirmation of investigation result. Through panel meeting, committee meeting, investigation team meeting and etc., ACC should review and confirm investigation results and propose sanctions according to the facts. If the accused does not accept the results, ACC could authorize the third party or hold hearing to re-launch the investigation.　　

Article 11 Investigation conclusions and sanction proposals. According to the investigation results, ACC will submit formal investigation conclusions and sanction proposals, and notify the accused.　　

Article 12 Enquiry on the results. If the accused does not accept the conclusions of ACC, he or she could appeal to the Academic Committee of the University within seven days of receiving the notification.　　

Article 13 Review. After receiving the enquiry request, the Academic Committee will initiate the review procedure, and promise to inform the results within 15 days. The review results will be the final determination.　　

Article 14 The investigation conclusions and sanction proposals, made by ACC, should be submitted to Academic Committee in formal writing reports.　　

Article 15 Before the formal conclusion, the investigation procedure and results should be confidential. Leakage of investigation contents, conclusions and sanction proposals are prohibited.  　　

Article 16 If the members of ACC or members of the department (Graduate School) involved with the accusation, or are relatives with the accused or within the immediate circle, or for other reasons, the members should avoid or withdraw from the investigation. Such evading decision of external members of ACC is made by the Secretariat of ACC, while the decision of internal members of ACC is made by the directors of ACC.　　

Article 17 The accused is entitled to defend their legal rights. ACC also has the duty to protect their reputation and legal interests. For cases already being investigated, ACC or Department Academic Committee should inform the accused truthfully and listen to their appeal. If the investigation result does not support the complaint, ACC should submit written conclusion to the accused. For complainants who slander others, the University should legitimately impose necessary penalty and defend the legal rights of the University and the accused. When dealing with the complaints and preceding the investigation and sanctions, ACC should take proper measures so as to protect the personal security, academic security and reputation of the complainants, witnesses, investigators and the accused.　　

Chapter 5 Sanctions and Penalties　　

Article 18 For the proved violators, ACC will propose the University to give single or multiple academic or administrative sanction(s) depending upon the severity. If academia issues proceeds to law suits, ACC will cooperate with relevant departments for investigation and handling, and proposing the corresponding penalties after the investigation.　　

(1) Academic penalty. Admonish. Publicly reprimand and cancel the honors. Transfer or cancel research projects and retrieve research funding. Terminate application for research projects. Terminate supervision of graduates. Temporarily disapprove the application for graduates’ supervisor or permanently cancel the title. Cancel the degree awarding or rescind the awarding.　　

(2) Administrative penalty. Warning, record a demerit, record a serious demerit, demotion, dismissal from the position, expulsion.　　

Article 19 The penalty will be recorded in the file, which will serve as the foundation of annual evaluation, promotion and honors application.　　

Article 20 The ACC will notify relevant organizations about the violations, including the sponsors, cooperators, partners, employers, relevant journals and publishing organizations, professional associations, high-level academia management organizations, and so on.　　

Article 21 The duration of sanctions should be specific. When it expires, the punished can apply for the termination of penalty. If repeat the offence during the penalty period, the penalty must be heavier.           　　

Chapter 6 Appendix 　　

Article 22 The University’s ACC reserves the rights of explaining the Regulations.　　

Article 23 The Regulations take effect on Jan. 1^st, 2012.