China News Service, Taipei, August 24th. The Office of Academic Affairs of Chung Hwa University in Taiwan announced on the 24th that Lin Zhijian's master's thesis, a graduate of the school's in-service master's degree, was reviewed and found that "there was plagiarism and the circumstances were serious", and decided to revoke his master's degree and announced the cancellation. diploma.
Lin Zhijian, a former DPP mayor of Hsinchu, was accused of plagiarism in two master thesis published at National Taiwan University in 2017 and Chung-Hwa University in 2008, causing a storm of public opinion.
On August 9, the National Taiwan University Academic Ethics Review Committee first determined that Lin Zhijian's paper was seriously plagiarized.
Amid public criticism, he was forced to withdraw from the Taoyuan mayoral election at the end of this year.
Chung Hwa University pointed out that Lin Zhijian's master's thesis published in July 2008 was suspected of plagiarizing the final report of the research plan "Assessing the Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park by TCSI Model" commissioned by the Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park Administration in 2008. public satisfaction".
After Chunghwa University announced the relevant conclusions, Lin Zhijian's lawyer Huang Diying later issued a statement on social media, saying that he "regrets" the result.
This academic misconduct known as the "dissertation gate" was exposed in early July this year. Lin Zhijian, who was portrayed as a young political talent and re-elected mayor of Hsinchu, always claimed to be "innocent". After National Taiwan University determined that Lin's thesis was seriously plagiarized, it still once demanded the whole party to "support" it.
In the end, the DPP had to withdraw Lin Zhijian from the election due to its inability to deal with the backlash in public opinion and the slump in the polls.
This result is also known by Taiwanese public opinion as the victory of academic ethics over the abuse of power by the DPP authorities.
Regarding Lin Zhijian's master's thesis published at Chung Hwa University, the school's president Liu Weiqi said on the 24th that the student's thesis violated academic ethics, and the instructor He Lixing and others were to blame and would conduct a comprehensive review.
Liu Renchang, an assistant professor at the Department of Finance and Economics of Deming University of Science and Technology in Taiwan, also pointed out earlier this month that the Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park Administration commissioned the Chung Hwa University research case to conduct a public opinion survey. , Lin Zhijian's behavior is not only suspected of plagiarism, but also involves "infringement of business secrets".
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