Recently, the National Natural Science Foundation of China has released the review results of projects funded by NSFC in 2017. According to the results, a total of 230 projects (including Outstanding Youth” have obtained the fund support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, with the number of approved projects and the fund amount both hitting a historical new high.

In 2017, during the concentrated receiving period of NSFC, Chongqing University submitted applications of more than 800 projects, increasing by 20.1% year on year; in particular, a total of 230 projects have obtained the fund support of an amount of 117.611 million yuan in total, increasing respectively by 11.7% and 12.6%. The average funding rate of NSFC in 2017 is 21% and that of Chongqing University is 28.8%, which is 7.8 percentage points higher than the average level.