I am very supportive of the school's initiative, because there were regulations before Peking University that applying for a master's degree in Peking University did not require the publication of academic papers. Tsinghua and Peking University are both top universities in our country and the dreams of countless students. The reform of Tsinghua and Peking University has always been the vane of domestic university reform. After Tsinghua and Peking University made such regulations, many universities in China will follow the footsteps of Tsinghua and Peking University and cancel the requirement that master's thesis must be published, so I think this is an important reform in the education system, which is supported by it.

So what's the impact of Tsinghua University's stipulation that applying for a master's degree doesn't have to publish papers?

I don't know if you still remember the news that a tutor in Tianjin University took his students to forge academic papers. So I think the reason why graduate students are the hardest hit by academic fraud is because they stipulate that they must publish some academic papers when applying for a master's degree, so in this case, students are racking their brains to publish such academic papers by hook or by crook. The abolition of this provision can alleviate the atmosphere of academic fraud to some extent.

Another advantage, I think, is that it can reduce the academic pressure of graduate students. Because I am writing a thesis now, I think writing a thesis is really a huge project. Start with the title of the paper, and then look through the previous literature. If the previous literature is similar to yours, you have to change it. You can't be like the previous literature. You must be innovative, so this is a very difficult job. Students and graduate students have to send two or three academic papers every semester, so I think this pressure is very great. There are also many people on the internet who say that the happiest time for graduate students is the moment they get the admission notice, and then they are chased by academic papers. I don't think students should bear so much pressure.