A Chinese former senior military official has been stripped of his doctorate after being found guilty of cheating 12 years after receiving it, according to a local news website.
“The PLA Academic Degrees and Graduate Education Development Centre has found numerous repetitions of the doctorate thesis of Huang Liuyu of the 2004 class and Shi Zhaoxing of the 2000 class, which constitutes academic misconduct,” the statement said. Before studying for his PhD, Huang achieved a bachelor’s degree from Henan Medical University in 1984 and a master’s from the PLA Academy of Medical Sciences. His doctoral research was in the area of biosafety, and disease control and prevention in the army.
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