Rather than being rooted out by the universities themselves, individuals report cases of plagiarism to online forums or the New Threads blog, which are then rigorously followed up and checked by Fang, a US-educated biochemist.
在学校系统自己无法发现[作弊现象]的情况下，很多人。。。

Concerned about China's international reputation in science in particular, it was only after complaints by the British-based medical journal The Lancet about faked scientific results and complaints by other Western academics, that the education ministry issued its first circular to universities to deal with academic plagiarism, including taking legal action and sacking perpetrators.
只是在。。。之后，中国教育部才出于国家科学声誉的考虑下达了。。。