19 In August, NSFC announced the release date of the 2022 National Natural Fund: it is planned to be released in early September. On September 8, the official website of the National Natural Science Foundation of China issued the Notice on the Evaluation Results of Centralized Acceptance of Projects Applied by the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2022.

In 2022, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (hereinafter referred to as NSFC) received a total of 294,396 project applications, and after preliminary examination and review, it accepted 292,829 projects.

Project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2022.

There are 20,472 general projects, 76 key projects1,79 key international (regional) cooperative research projects, 22,262 youth science funds, 630 outstanding youth science funds and 25 outstanding youth science funds (Hong Kong and Macao).

National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars Project 4 15, 43 innovative research groups, regional science fund project 352 1, foreign scholars research fund project 109 (including 49 foreign outstanding young scholars research fund projects and 60 foreign senior scholars research fund projects).