The Council of Agriculture invited experts to determine that among the 21 sub-reports completed by Zhang Shanzheng within 3 years, 6 of them were plagiarized, and Acer will recover the project funds for 6 reports.

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6 sub-reports are highly repetitive and involve infringement

[Reporter Yang Yuanting/Taipei Report] When Taoyuan Mayor Zhang Shanzheng served as the vice president of Acer, he served as the host of the "Agricultural Electronics Development Strategy Analysis and Planning" project of the Council of Agriculture from 2007 to 2009, and was kicked out There were many plagiarisms in the submitted reports. The Council of Agriculture invited experts to confirm that among the 21 sub-reports completed by Zhang Shanzheng in three years, six of them were plagiarized. He will recover the project funds for six reports from Acer, and the amount is still in actuarial calculation. Then notify Acer.

The amount is still actuarial and Acer will be notified after the Spring Festival

Zhang Shanzheng completed 21 reports that year, with an overall budget of 57.36 million yuan. After being kicked out for suspected plagiarism at the end of August last year, the Council of Agriculture checked through the paper comparison tool, and six sub-reports were highly repetitive and involved infringement.

Chen Junji, vice chairman of the Council of Agriculture, said that they all belong to the project of "Assisting in the Development and Planning of Domestic Agricultural Informatization", which accounts for about 5% to 15% of the overall funding.

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Chen Junji said that in addition to inviting Acer and Zhang Shanzheng to explain, the Council of Agriculture also invited seven experts to form a task force to review. The experts have legal, social science, intellectual property rights, and information expertise. , the list of committee members is inconvenient to disclose due to personal information.

In addition to system comparison, manual confirmation is also used one by one

The task force held three meetings. After the first meeting, they again invited Acer and Zhang Shanzheng to provide additional clarifications. For the six controversial sub-reports, the task force used comparison software tools to analyze the repetition of the text, and manually confirmed each of the six sub-reports. Regarding the correspondence of the original documents, Chen Junji said that the seven committee members unanimously confirmed that the repeated parts of the text were substantially similar to the published references.

Chen Junji explained that if the popular interpretation of "substantial similarity" means plagiarism.

Zhang Shanzheng has violated the contract "The report and R&D results delivered by Party B shall not be plagiarized, plagiarized, or infringe on other people's business secrets, intellectual property rights and other rights." Chen Junji said that the Council of Agriculture will recover the six from Acer according to the contract The planned funding for this report is expected to be available after the Spring Festival.