China’s research clout leads to growth in homegrown science publishing / Nature

The article discusses how Chinese researchers tend to publish in international journals and highlights efforts by the country to reverse this trend through several initiatives, such as those related to research assessment, aimed at encouraging publications in domestic journals with international influence. 

The article also notes that "one aspect of publishing that China seems less interested in pursuing is open access." "The country produces hundreds of thousands of open-access articles each year, and the total is growing fast, but as a proportion of all research output, it remains lower than the rest of the world..." "they [the Chinese government] remain suspicious of it [open access],...especially the trend towards gold open access [Gold OA articles requiring an article processing charge rose by almost 500% from 2015 to 2022]...They see it as a Western business model...foisted on them." Experts do not foresee a national policy on open access in China soon.