Fraudulent research and faked peer reviews have led to a humiliating setback for China's goal of becoming a global leader in scientific research.

New restrictions hamper access to websites useful for research.

The Cambridge University Press faced academic outrage after agreeing to remove articles about Tibet, Tiananmen Square and China's Cultural Revolution.

Academics pressure publisher as Beijing mouthpiece says western institutions can leave if they don’t like ‘the Chinese way’

Academics and activists decry publisher’s decision to comply with a Chinese request to block more than 300 articles from leading China studies journal.

Fertility centres are making a massive push to increase preimplantation genetic diagnosis in a bid to eradicate certain diseases.

More than 400 authors on some 100 papers from a single journal face punishments

The Chinese government finds almost 500 researchers guilty of misconduct in relation to a recent spate of retractions from a cancer journal.

Chinese scientists can be paid up to $165K for publishing a single paper in a top Western journal. The first study of payments to Chinese scientists for publishing in high-impact journals has serious implications for the future of research.

Efforts to promote and enforce shared research have made progress in China, but there is much room for improvement.

Investment also planned in artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and other fields.

Scientists at Nanjing University are using a gene-editing process called Crispr-Cas9 to hack into DNA—giving them the power to add, edit and delete genes with great precision.

In this Policy Forum, Cong Cao and Richard P. Suttmeier highlight the immense work and challenges China will encounter as it attempts to reform its scientific and technological development strategy.

Beijing is ready for the US to stop taking all the credit on AI advancements.

New device will probe smog and other chemical reactions in gases.

As part of its new 13th 5-year plan, the Chinese Academy of Sciences this month unveiled plans for a national science center...

China has come out top in a new ranking that identifies the universities that have shown the most significant growth in the number of high-quality research publications.

Fraud, bureaucracy and an obsession with quantity over quality still hold Chinese science back

From building the biggest experiments the world has ever seen to rolling out the latest medical advances on a massive scale and pushing the boundaries of exploration from the deepest ocean to outer space - China’s scientific ambitions are immense.

The Chinese government’s professed commitment to transparency and responsiveness has had a rocky start.

China has released its first national standards governing the treatment of laboratory animals, and scientists hope the guidelines will improve both conditions for animals and China’s prospects for international research collaborations.

Communist Party boosts defense R&D as it modernizes military