Two universities slapped with military procurement ban

Two universities in China have been banned from military procurement activities for rigging the bidding process amid an ongoing anti-corruption campaign, writes Victoria Bela for South China Morning Post.

The People’s Liberation Army Cyberspace Force handed three-year bans to the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and Chengdu University of Information Technology – both based in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province.

The bans were announced in two separate statements posted on the force’s website on 2 January – the date the ban started – both of which said the universities were “prohibited from participating in the procurement of materials and engineering services for cyberspace forces”.
Full report on the South China Morning Post site