Is our country accused of having a culture of plagiarism? The instrumentation industry must say No to this!

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　　Recently, \"Love Apartment\" has sparked intense discussions and even accusations from netizens due to a plagiarism scandal. Some foreign media have taken this as a topic, claiming that in addition to \"copying,\" China will develop a completely new \"technology.\" “The two disgraceful terms, \"culture of plagiarism\" and \"country of knockoffs,\" have now become labels associated with China. As those in the instrumentation industry, can we do our part to help **get rid of these labels as soon as possible? http://www.jiweimeter.com/uploads/image/20180629/1530268965.jpg For young people, \"Love Apartment\" is a domestic sitcom that captures the humor of everyone’s youth. However, according to comparison images posted by Weibo users, \"Love Apartment\" shares similarities in plotlines, scenarios, and even lines of dialogue with various classic American sitcoms such as \"Friends\" and \"The Big Bang Theory\". Some netizens jokingly referred to \"Love Apartment\" as \"Friends of the Brain\" or \"Plagiarism Apartment\". 　　In fact, this is not the first time that \"Love Apartment\" has been accused of plagiarism. As early as 2012, the crew of \"Love Apartment 3\" was asked by netizens to apologize to and compensate the original creators for plagiarizing various online jokes in the series. Now that the movie adaptation of \"Love Apartment\" is coming out, the series’ \"dark history\" has been brought back into the spotlight, resulting in a surge in interest for it. It’s hard not to suspect that this is marketing tactics carried out by the behind-the-scenes team to increase visibility. In today’s cultural industry, \"black\" popularity is also a form of popularity. As long as the profits are there, whitewashing is just a matter of time. As with many historical dramas in the past, plagiarism allegations have been raised against them. But by the time the issues came to light, these teams had already made huge profits. 　　In fact, “plagiarism” reflects a social phenomenon in which people will stop at nothing to gain profits. This shortcut to making money attracts many people. In 2011, a domestic company received a court summons for plagiarism. According to the plaintiff’s claims, several monitors produced by the defendant’s company are suspected of infringing upon the plaintiff’s company’s relevant invention patents, utility model patents, and trade secrets. Amazingly, in 2010 that company generated sales revenue of 108 million yuan solely from infringing products, accounting for 33.88% of its total sales revenue from core business activities that year; as a result, for three consecutive years in the first half of those years, it maintained a gross margin level that was roughly on par with that of the industry leader, which was the plaintiff company. 　　It’s truly enviable that such “plagiarism” can be more profitable than original work. Companies that have seen the benefits are willing to take the blame and go all out in \"copying,\" while those that haven’t experienced such benefits are even more inclined to take a risk. However, “plagiarism” not only harms the interests of intellectual property holders but also slows down the pace of innovative development in the instrumentation industry. If everyone can profit from \"plagiarism\" and those whose work is plagiarized receive no protection, then who will still be willing to innovate? 　　Furthermore, “plagiarism” has another meaning: copying or adopting someone else’s ideas, methods, experience, etc., without considering the objective circumstances. In this definition, the biggest problem with \"plagiarism\" is that the plagiarist lacks their own thinking on the issue. Although most advanced instruments at present are imported products, when China’s instrumentation industry needs to develop new types of instruments, it is forced to adopt advanced foreign technologies. However, in order to save time costs, some companies resort to the unthinking approach of \"copying\" in the development of their products, which easily leads to wasted funds and material losses, ultimately resulting in half the effort yielding half the result. At the same time, it will only prevent domestic users from experiencing the innovation in China’s instrumentation industry, making it even harder to break their stereotypes about domestic instruments. 　　Therefore, those of us in the instrumentation industry should have our own professional principles, distinguish between \"learning from others\" and \"plagiarism\", and loudly say \"No!\" to the prevalent culture of plagiarism in our country. Furthermore, we must also learn to draw on the experience of those who have come before us in the domestic and international instrumentation industries, keep learning and innovating, and strive to create instrumentation brands with Chinese characteristics that reflect China’s unique identity and help enhance its reputation!