The Chinese authorities turned to a Massachusetts company and a prominent Yale researcher as they built an enormous system of surveillance and control.

Offending researchers could face restrictions on jobs, loans and business opportunities under a system tied to the controversial social credit policy.

Officials pledge support for European-led 'Plan S' to tear down journal paywalls - but it's unclear whether China will adopt its policies.

The startling announcement by a Chinese scientist represents a controversial leap in the use of genome-editing.

Thousands of abstracts of conference presentations, most by authors in China, were declared flawed.

The government hopes it will improve research quality, but some researchers are sceptical.

Exascale computers promise dramatic advances in climate modeling, genetics studies, and artificial intelligence

Already the world's second biggest R&D spender behind the United States, China is steadily narrowing the gap, according to a government report released last week.

Revised rules are designed to help researchers focus on their work and compete with their counterparts globally.

Newly released guidelines open the door wider for foreign researchers, allowing them to lead public research projects.

New national guidelines spell out punishment for plagiarism, fabrication of data and research conclusions, ghostwriting and peer review manipulation.

An analysis shows that extending the age limit for grants boosts the number awarded to women, but more must be done to achieve parity, say Ying Ma and colleagues.

The regulations issued by the State Council aim to improve the management, security, accuracy, and openness of scientific data.

China’s much-anticipated brain initiative finally starts to take shape.

Government overhaul prompts fears that funding will drop for basic research.

The altering of the Chinese national constitution to remove the text limiting China’s president and vice-president to two terms, cementing Xi Jinping’s leadership possibly for the next two decades, will mean a further ideological tightening in universities, and an extension of ‘Xi Jinping research’ in institutions.

The percentage of funding for basic science R&D in the central government's total financial input in science and technology has reached the level of developed countries, according to an official overseeing resource allocation and management at the ministry.