Colleges and universities directly under the Ministry of Education, ministries and commissions and provinces jointly build colleges and universities with the school as the unit, local colleges and universities with the education departments (education committees) of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government as the unit, and colleges and universities affiliated to other relevant departments (units) with the education departments (bureaus) as the unit (hereinafter referred to as the reporting unit), which make centralized declarations and do not accept individual declarations. This project adopts the online declaration method.

The O application system (hereinafter referred to as the application system), the research management platform of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, is the only online platform for this application, and the online application methods and procedures are subject to this system.