Tianjin University informed that "the professor was reported for academic misconduct": the situation was true and the contract was terminated.

  In response to "Professor Zhang Yuqing was reported for academic misconduct by his real name", on November 19, Tianjin University issued a notice in official website, saying that after receiving the real name report about Zhang Yuqing, the college immediately set up a special investigation team to carry out the investigation according to the regulations. After preliminary investigation by the investigation team, Zhang Yuqing’s academic misconduct was found to be true. Zhang Yuqing admits that he has academic misconduct and is willing to take full responsibility. At present, Tianjin University has terminated the employment contract with Zhang Yuqing. Other related issues are under further investigation.

  According to a real-name report obtained by The Paper, a former graduate student majoring in chemical engineering of Tianjin University reported Zhang Yuqing, a professor at the School of Chemical Engineering of Tianjin University, with his real name, and reported that the latter made many frauds in his experiments and published papers from 2011 to 2020, and helped his daughter to publish papers many times.

  In the report materials, the whistleblower said, for example, that during the mid-term assessment of a scientific research project in Tianjin, Zhang Yuqing "not only used fake experimental records and fake experimental data, but also used articles unrelated to this project to cheat the examiners." "Zhang Yuqing took out a large bottle of purchased silica particles in front of our students and said that it was a multifunctional new particle synthesized by ourselves, pointing to the large stainless steel device in our laboratory more than ten years ago and said that it was the casting solution made for them."

  In addition, the report materials also listed that Zhang Yuqing repeatedly revised the experimental results and thesis contents of his graduate students, and published his daughter’s name. Even when his daughter was still in high school, she signed her daughter’s name in her graduate thesis on the grounds that "her daughter participated in the revision of the thesis".