After consulting Shaanxi Provincial Fund Network, if the applicant disagrees with the decision not to approve the project, he may apply to the National Natural Science Foundation of China for project review.

Shaanxi Province, referred to as Shaanxi or Qin for short, is a provincial-level administrative region of People's Republic of China (PRC), with the provincial capital An, located in the hinterland of China and the middle reaches of the Yellow River, bordering Shaanxi and Henan in the east, Ningxia and Gansu in the west, Sichuan, Chongqing and Hubei in the south and Inner Mongolia in the north.