China Zhiwang rectification!It is intended to provide personal users with investigation services

On June 12, China Zhiwang issued an announcement. From the beginning of the day, China Zhiwang provided directly to individual users with investigation services.

According to the official website of China Zhizhi.com, Zhiwang continued to provide free dissertation services to graduate students through graduate training management institutions (graduate schools). The number of free times increased from 1.5 times per capita to 3 times per capita. The pricing of the personal version of the paid version refers to the method of charging the number of characters in the market.

Earlier, Zhiwang was in the autumn of events, and issues such as "low buying and selling", "checking the gray industrial chain" and "the author's self -downloading thesis need to pay" and other issues have attracted social attention.

The first knife of Zhiwang to the chain of checking is intended to combat the gray industry chain. What changes will this move bring? As the first step of antitrust rectification, do you recognize the sincerity of Zhiwang?

Picture source: China Zhizhi.com official website announcement.

How is the sincerity of cracking down on the gray industry chain?

After the antitrust censorship, Zhiwang finally took the first step in rectification.

On June 12, on the official website of China Zhiwang, the "Announcement on Providing Heavy Services for Individuals in China" appeared, saying that Zhizhi.com was using its own database industry position to crack down on the rampant "investigating gray industry". Crack the problem of high -priced and high -priced investigations.

Picture source: China Zhizhi.com official website.

The reporter opened Taobao to search for "checking". Various types of review services ranging from dozens to hundreds of yuan. Some of them specifically labeled "Swing Special", "Journal Devision", "No Traces", "Consistent with the School" "".

After interviewing a number of masters, the reporter learned that the school's qualification qualifications were used to test whether the papers were in line with academic norms. Therefore, before school testing, the paper needs to "lose weight" first. "No trace" represents the review, and the report needs to be deleted, so that it will not affect school testing.

Provide shops that check the service. Picture source: Taobao.com

"If the price is too low, dare not buy, afraid of the dissertation leak, and the database that is not checked is not large enough, which will also affect the efficiency of the impairment. In severe cases, it is not possible to pass the school to check it." A 2021 master graduate recalled, "I was first at that time. I bought a cheaper Paperpass (thesis checking platform), and later I bought a 600 yuan Zhiwangzhizhi service on Taobao. Although the price is expensive, it is expensive, otherwise what should I do if I will get the check -in? "

Zhiwang said on the common question of his personal investigation website on June 12: Zhiwang used to provide investigation services to institutions in the past, ignoring the actual needs of the majority of personal user academic norms, self -inspection and checking, etc., which objectively caused caused The problem of black market and high price.

It can be said that from the first step out, Zhiwang's sincerity is full. The investigation service is reduced to 1.5 yuan/thousand words, and it is also at a low level in various high -priced resource libraries, which greatly reduces the cost of the dissertation.

However, it is not just the gray industrial chain brought by the study of the academic community, but to judge the paper based on the standards of investigation.

According to the reporter's understanding, the papers that have been circulated among students include but not limited to the "adjustment of the language", "Chinese flip British, and then the British flip", "wash drafts", "adopting synonyms", etc. Any dissertation at an innovative point can also be checked. In addition, there are papers to investigate and calculate the quotation literature as duplicate. Students must try their best to quote the literature, which has caused greater difficulties in liberal arts students. In order to reduce the duplication rate, some platforms also provide "reduction services" to directly replace students to complete the impairment work, which has caused new academic misconduct.

However, as Zhiwang said: "In fact, investigations can not replace the judgment of academic value, and the repetition rate of text is not directly related to the quality of the paper."

Xiong Bingqi, dean of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, said that in order to improve the quality of graduate training, my country must improve the mentor system, strengthen the guiding role of the mentor, and the role of the thesis defense committee. This reduces the dependence of institutions and individuals to investigate the papers.

"Due to the high dependence of the agency's emphasis on the papers, the academic database with complete academic data is in a monopoly position." Xiong Bingqi believes.

The beginning and end of the monopoly storm: from "knowledge torch" to "academic monopoly"

Why does Zhiwang cause monopoly? From the history of Zhiwang.

In 1998, the World Bank mentioned the concept of national knowledge infrastructure (NKI) in the "1998 World Development Report" that the construction plan of China Knowledge Network (referred to as CNKI) came into being.

In 1998, the "China Academic Journal (CD Version)" hosted by Tsinghua University was formally established to host the construction of China Zhiwang. One year later, China Journal was online and renamed China Zhiwang. "China Academic Journal (CD Version)" Electronic Magazine is responsible for content construction. Tongfang Zhiwang (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd., which is also a Tsinghua University Enterprise Enterprise, provides technical and services. Although the news of changes in equity is reported, Zhiwang has grown all the way and has become the largest academic resource library in China.

At the beginning of the founding, China Zhiwang received the endorsement of Tsinghua University, and the national ministries and commissions were vigorously supported. They were included in the "National Torch Program". Ahead.

According to statistics from China Zhizhi.com, it has been included in more than 380,000 doctoral dissertations from 470 doctoral units since 1984, more than 3.67 million master's dissertations from 753 master's degree training units; Essence After the years, the original intention is not there. China Zhiwang includes more than 95%of the officially published Chinese academic resources in the name of non -market -oriented way and infrastructure. It has an unable to shake the position in the industry, but it has repeatedly reported that "low buy low buying high high Selling the monopoly reputation of "shop bullying guests".

However, because of its "deep binding" status with scientific research, many scholars often dare to be angry or not, and a large number of colleges and universities are not good for their days, because their sky -high procurement fees are in a dilemma.

In January 2016, Wuhan University of Science and Technology announced the suspension of Zhiwang and said: "Due to the dismissal of the price increase of the renewal price, the negotiations between our school and China Zhiwang Company have not been successful. Has received a lot of resistance from many universities across the country, including many well -known 985 universities. "

In 2016, Peking University issued the "China Knowledge Network" may interrupt service notice, which given the reason for "because databasers have increased their prices too much."

Picture source: Peking University Library.

According to statistics, at least 6 different universities in the past ten years. Due to the high renewal price of Zhiwang, a statement was issued publicly. However, due to its monopoly position, most of them eventually complained to Zhiwang.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences Literature and Intelligence Center issued a notice on April 8, 2022 that Tongfang Zhiwang Technology Co., Ltd. (CNKI database publisher) suspended the authority of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on the CNKI database. download.

The above notice mentioned that "The total cost of ordering of China Institute of Database of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Group in 2021 has reached 10 million levels, and the high ordering costs have become the" Big Mac "in the introduction of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Group's resources."

Picture source: Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Even the Chinese Intellectual Network that the Chinese Academy of Sciences can't afford to use it. Where is the monopoly?

For colleges, high procurement costs bring heavy pressure. The price given by Zhiwang often does not have room for bargaining.

According to the China Government Procurement Network, on August 25, 2020, the budget of Beijing Normal University's procurement of China Zhiwang Database was 1.9836 million yuan, and the transaction value on September 9 was 1.9835 million yuan, a decrease of only 100 yuan.

According to the financial report of Tongfang Zhiwang in 2021, its main business revenue reached 1.289 billion yuan, and the gross profit margin was about 53.35%, more than 90%of A -share listed companies.

The screenshot was reported from Tongfang Zhi.com in 2021.

For individuals, too many manuscripts lower than the market are unreasonable for the "manuscript" system that is forced to include.

In 2016, the "Zhiwang Degree Papers Revised Notice" issued by Zhiwang showed that Zhiwang contains a master's degree papers with a manuscript reward of 30-60 yuan and a doctoral dissertation paid for 80-100 yuan.

Most masters and doctoral students of universities must sign the "Disseatting Division Authorization Agreement" to authorize all or part of the dissertation into the relevant database.

Zhang Hongbo, the director of the Chinese Copyright Association Zhang Hongbo, found that the copyright statement and manuscript of the academic journal were similar to the copyright. Generally speaking, "this journal has permitted the Chinese academic journal (CD version) Electronic Magazine Copy, assembled, distribute, distribute, and information network dissemination of this magazine in a digital manner. The copyright use fee of the agency is paid with the manuscript of this journal.

In December 2021, Zhao Dexin, a retired professor at Zhongnan University of Finance and Economics and Law, was nearly ninety of the year, but still insisted on coming with Zhiwang Public Hall, just because he accidentally discovered that he had more than 160 articles. Essence However, when he downloaded his papers, he was prompted to pay, but he never received any manuscript fee for self -Zhiwang.

Since 2013, the old professor has begun to complain about China Zhiwang one by one, and finally won the case, with a total of more than 700,000 yuan.

Driven by him, many professors also stood out to confront China Zhiwang, a behemoth in the academic world, and the cost was that China Zhiwang decided to get off the academic efforts of their lifetime -this means that in the academic world "". Most scholars who want to develop in the academic world often cannot adopt this way of gambling to defend their rights.

In fact, there have been many cases around Zhiwang's academic disputes.

According to the judicial analysis data of the Tianyancha website, in the cases involved in the organizer of Zhiwang, the number of cases of copyright ownership and infringement disputes has the largest number, reaching 875, followed by violation of the dispute between the information network dissemination of the work and the property rights of other works' property rights. Disputes, etc. It is worth noting that about 83.1%of the cases are sitting on the defendant's seat.

Professor Zhao Dexin was not the first person to initiate a challenge to the "Zhiwang system". Fortunately, this is the most influential lawsuit or will promote the market forward.

On December 10, 2021, Zhiwang apologized to Professor Zhao Dexin, saying "facing the problem and solving the problem", and lowered the download price of a doctoral dissertation.

On May 13, the State Administration of Market Supervision announced that it was investigated on the suspected implementation of monopoly behaviors in accordance with the law. Zhiwang issued an announcement: We resolutely support and cooperate with all our best. Picture source: China Zhizhi.com official website.

On June 8, 2022, Zhiwang issued a notice saying that various business rectifications are currently underway, and all sectors of society are welcome to make opinions and suggestions on the future development of Zhiwang.

Picture source: China Zhizhi.com official website.

On June 12, China Zhiwang provided directly to personal users. Now it is the first step in the graduation season and the first step of rectification will effectively bring benefits to the majority of graduates.

According to the Yangtze River Daily, Professor Zhao Dexin learned that "Zhiwang Open Personal Investigation" said: "I am glad to hear the news, I am signed a paper agreement with Zhiwang. significance."

Rectification cannot be tasting, calling more open knowledge spread

According to China Zhiwang.com in 2019, its users cover 33,000 institutions in 56 countries and regions around the world and 200 million individual readers. The daily visits reached 16 million, and the annual download volume was 2.33 billion.

The huge database laid its real -quality "Chinese Intellectual Infrastructure" function. It only checked the price reduction of the heavy service but the tip of the iceberg. No response. What caused Professor Zhao Dexin's lawsuit is precisely the "reader author to eat" as a super -middle businessman.

Of course, many researchers are worried about the fate of this "large and comprehensive" one -stop search database.

Yuan Ye, a lecturer and antitrust law researcher at the School of Law School of the Central South Ethnic University, explained that the scale of the database itself is not the original sin, and antitrust does not mean to eliminate the "large and complete" database. "The antitrust law is not against this structural monopoly, but the opposite is that its behavior has caused the effect of excluding restrictions on competition."

Many media call on "knowledge sharing" should not be the business that is profitable. The society's discussion about Zhiwang is also calling on Zhizhi.com to take more social responsibilities and play a role in promoting rather than hindering the flow of knowledge. Therefore, this requires Zhiwang to balance public welfare services and business profits, take out further solutions, and effectively benefit the intellectual and students.

Knowledge communication should be more open. The society appealed that China Zhiwang has become the "torch" of the Chinese academic community.

The information is integrated from "China Knowledge Network", "China Government Procurement Network", "Yangtze River Daily", "China Youth Daily", "Sanlian Life Weekly" and "China Economic Net" and so on.

■ China City News Reporter: Fang Ziwei

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