24, reporters learned from the scio conference, as of August 15, the national natural science fund committee (hereinafter referred to as the "foundation") received 194966 items of all kinds of project application, 40860 have been approved for funding, funding direct costs 19.9734666 billion yuan, at present has completed 78.29% of the annual funding plan.

This year, the number of applications for science funds has hit a record high, and the fund has become the largest recipient of applications in a similar fund in the world. Overall, the service economy and social development, the improvement of the people's livelihood related scientific field application volume increase significantly.

Focusing on the base front

According to the fund's director, Yang wei, one of the characteristics of this year's funding is the continued stability and support for free exploration. The amount of funds for free exploration projects, such as the project, the youth science fund project and the regional science fund project, was up 140.33 million yuan, or 9.74 percent, from 2016.

At the same time, the fund has steadily increased the funding scale and strength of key projects to encourage scientists to take a long-term and systematic solution to important scientific issues. Research instruments with original ideas are still being paid attention to.

The fund committee also focuses on the field of synthetic biology and artificial intelligence, with a tilt in the funding scheme to attract outstanding talent teams, with a focus on funding frontier exploration, with a plan to fund 97.24 million yuan.

Strategic need

The research on the source of the country's major demand orientation is the important support direction of scientific fund in recent years. 39:1098 revealed that this year to strengthen the deployment on major projects, key projects item number increased from 23 to 39, including "high-speed rail transit system evolution of dynamic performance and control" "big aircraft radial tyre advanced composite materials and structure design and manufacture of basic research", etc.

Major research program from the previous year to three to four, including "turbulence structure and action mechanism of generation and evolution" "biological macromolecular dynamic modification and chemical intervention studies" "organelles interaction network and its function is research" and "tethys geodynamic system", plans to fund direct costs 800 million yuan.

Science funds will strengthen forward deployment and strive for breakthroughs. "We last year in the emerging disciplines and interdisciplinary efforts funded key projects is 1.7 billion yuan, grew to $2 billion this year, funding number from 612 to 667 last year, aid strength also increased from last year of about 2.8 million yuan each to this year's 3 million yuan each." 39:1098 said.

We will continue to strengthen the support of tsing ko

Applications continue to increase this year, the class of talent project, youth science fund project, outstanding young science foundation projects, national outstanding youth science fund project, district science fund project filings rose more than 10%. In this context, "the funding intensity of the youth science foundation project is 18.1% higher than last year." 39:1098 said. At the same time, in order to ensure the quality of funding, the talent program has maintained a high selection level. Take the excellent youth science foundation project, which has an average funding rate of just 8.2% this year.

"We found that the surface is constantly, head of the young, in 2017, under the age of 40, head of the proportion of 46.22%, about 10% higher than that of 2011, now more and more young people begin to lead." 39:1098 said. [China science and technology network]

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