'The Academic Style Construction Committee Is by No Means an Ornament': Interview with Vice Director Yuan Zhenguo of the Ministry of Education, Social Sciences Department

The academic style (conduct) of academic circles has become a hot topic in the media. This article presents an interview conducted by "China Newsweek" with Vice Director Yuan Zhenguo of the Ministry of Education, Social Sciences Department. In this interview, Zhenguo talks about the Ministry of Education's plan to set up such institutions as an "academic style construction committee" to effectively curb the problems of academic plagiarism and academic fraud that have emerged in institutions of higher learning. He not only details the main functions of the Academic Style Construction Committee and the kind of powers that the committee will have, but also the sort of people that may become members of this committee. [This article was translated by Ted Wang.]