The awards organizing committee responded that "the son's winning invention is highly similar to the father's research institute": the survey is being conducted

Jimu News reporter Xie Mao

Liu Mouyang, a middle school student in Hefei, Anhui Province, has won a number of provincial and national awards within three years with the two inventions of "Portable Smog Pollution Gas Rapid Identification and Detection Device" and "Drunk Driving Safety Laser Rapid Screening System", but these two inventions are highly similar to the research results of the Hefei Institute of Physical Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in terms of name, working principle, appearance, etc., and Liu Mouyang's father Liu Jianguo served as the leader of the institute, and was the main completer and patent applicant of the two research projects on appeal.

The incident caused a lot of doubts, and Liu Jianguo was accused of using the scientific research results of the institute to help his son go to school. In this regard, Liu Jianguo himself responded: "My son's middle school entrance examination and college entrance examination have nothing to do with science and technology, and the middle school entrance examination is through the top-notch examination in the province in the school." ”

Liu Mouyang's invention device (left) and Anhui Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (right) released by the media

On October 28, the staff of the organizing committee of the competition told jimu news reporters that they had paid attention to the matter and were investigating.

The organizing committee of the awards competition said that it has paid attention to the public opinion investigation

In 2015, Liu Mouyang, the son of Liu Jianguo, won the first prize in the science and technology invention category of the Anhui Youth Science and Technology Innovation Competition, the third prize of the National Youth Science and Technology Innovation Competition, and the 8th Youth Science and Technology Innovation District Mayor Award in Shushan District of Hefei City in 2016 for inventing the "Portable Smog Pollution Gas Rapid Identification and Detection Device" (also known as the "Portable Multi-component Gas Ultraviolet Field Analyzer"). However, in terms of name, working principle and appearance, the invention is highly consistent with a scientific research achievement of the Anhui Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of the Hefei Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2012. At that time, Liu Jianguo served as the deputy director of the institute and the main completer of the project to which the scientific research results belonged.

In 2018, Liu Mouyang, who was in the first grade of Hefei 168 Middle School, once again won the third prize of the 33rd National Youth Science and Technology Innovation Competition, the first prize of the 2018 Anhui Youth Science and Technology Innovation Competition, and the 16th Youth Science and Technology Innovation Mayor Award of Hefei for inventing the "Drunk Driving Safety Laser Rapid Screening System". Coincidentally, the invention is also highly similar to the principle of the national patent "laser drunk driving side online monitoring system" applied by Liu Jianguo in 2011.

After the incident was reported by the media, it caused a lot of doubts, Liu Jianguo was accused of using the scientific research results of the research institute to help his son go to school, and many netizens expressed doubts: "Are these inventions made by junior high school students?" ”

According to the China Youth Daily, Liu Jianguo himself responded: "My son's middle school entrance examination and college entrance examination have nothing to do with science and technology, and the middle school entrance examination is through the top exam in the province in the school." As for whether to participate in Liu Mouyang's science and technology competition, Liu Jianguo said: "The original intention of science and technology innovation of the Association is to popularize science and cultivate young people's interest in science. Other features are added by others. The science and technology competition has its own process, whether to participate and contribute is the question that the judges in the judging and debate session should grasp. ”

On October 28, Jimu News reporters called the National Youth Science and Technology Innovation Organizing Committee, and the staff said that they had paid attention to the matter and were investigating.

Education experts say they should find out the facts and hold them accountable

According to a report in July 2020, the level of projects above the middle school group of the National Youth Science and Technology Innovation Competition has reached the level of master's or even doctoral level, and even high-end instruments such as Shanghai synchrotron radiation light source and electron microscope are needed, and the researchers of the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Light Source Chinese Academy of Sciences are difficult to apply for. There are also doctoral students who unknowingly "oem" a project, and the project is done for the children of a leader to participate in a national youth science and technology innovation competition.

According to the 2021 version of the Rules for The Youth Science and Technology Innovation Achievements Competition, "Instructors should understand and abide by the competition rules, sign a letter of commitment to integrity when declaring, and be responsible for the authenticity of students' entries, the scientific nature of the research process, and students' compliance with the code of conduct for scientific and technological practice activities." If the instructor has a family relationship with the participating students, he should fill in truthfully when declaring. "If" the work has academic misconduct problems such as plagiarism, adult substitution, or infringement of the intellectual property rights of others. "Declarations are not accepted.

Liu Mouyang's instructor at the junior high school competition said in an interview with the media that she was more about guiding students to fill out forms and "not necessarily understand" the invention.

The staff of the experimenter's office of Hefei 168 Middle School told jimu news reporters that they would guide students from the beginning of the topic selection to the competition.

Xiong Bingqi, an education scholar and president of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, said that something like this has happened more than once, and parents can give support and certain guidance to their children to participate in scientific research, but the entire scientific research must be completed independently by the child, and the results of scientific research must also be obtained independently by the child, which can be counted as the student's results. This matter should be traced to find out whether Liu Mouyang's father took the initiative to cheat, or there was a violation of the enrollment procedure, or the review of the science and technology competition was not strict, and then the relevant responsible persons were held responsible according to the facts.

Since Liu Mouyang entered high school in 2017, he is now enrolled in a university, as long as he does not violate the rules in the admission process of the university, it will basically not affect the normal studies of his university. In recent years, the special enrollment of colleges and universities is also further regulated, for example, on January 15, 2020, the Ministry of Education issued the "Opinions on Carrying out the Pilot Work of Enrollment Reform in Basic Disciplines in Some Colleges and Universities" (also known as the "Qiangji Plan"), which clarifies that from 2020, the original independent enrollment methods of colleges and universities will no longer be used and replaced by the "Qiangji Plan".

At present, papers, invention patents, awards, etc. basically have no effect on college admissions, even for a very small number of candidates with outstanding talents and performance in related disciplines, the "Strong Foundation Plan" stipulates that the relevant universities can formulate conditions and methods for entering the college assessment, and announce them to the public in advance, and candidates must participate in the unified college entrance examination.

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