Top Chinese Communist Party Officials Plagiarized Doctoral Theses, Report Says

Then Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao attends the closing session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference at the Great Hall of the People on March 13, 2015 in Beijing, China. Li's doctoral dissertation plagiarized from other's. Photo by Feng Li/Getty Images

Six top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials plagiarized parts of their university theses, according to a review by the news agency AFP, in the latest instance of academic fraud exposed in recent weeks.

AFP reported March 8 that it obtained and reviewed 12 top Chinese officials’ master’s and doctoral theses, and found half of them were copied from other people’s theses without citation.