Wu Shulian is an individual who created and published by himself the rankings for universities in China.
The Ministry of Education of China strongly opposed the university rankings as it was based on the payment of "fees.
[6] This widespread controversy has greatly affected the credit of this ranking program and has frequently been reported on by the media.
[7][8] Wu Shuliang officially responded with paper in Higher Education Development and Evaluation[9][10] addressing several mistakes made by the study, including failure to correctly use the ranking method, failure to show the calculation process, meaning that the calculations cannot be repeated, inappropriately publishing classified data from the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, inappropriate use of unavailable/non-equivalent indices/scores for California Institute of Technology constituting 78.79% of total indices/scores.
[11] Wu Shuliang's paper shows California Institute of Technology clearly ranks much higher than any of Chinese Universities using his published method with proper treatment.