Deputy ministerial level. The National Natural Science Foundation, abbreviated as NSFC, was formally established on February 14, 1986. It was an institution directly under the State Council and was managed by the Ministry of Science and Technology. It manages the National Natural Science Foundation in accordance with the law and operates relatively independently. It is responsible for funding plans, project setting and review , project establishment, supervision and other organization and implementation work. The director of the National Natural Science Foundation of China is at the deputy ministerial level. Director, a common title for civil servants. The county level is the county level. Below it is the section chief, and above it is the director or director.

The Natural Science Foundation of China is an institution directly under the State Council that manages the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Since its establishment, under the care of the Party Central Committee, under the correct leadership of the State Council, and with the support of relevant departments of the State Council and scientists across the country, the Science Fund has broken through the traditional management model of relying on administrative allocations for scientific research funds under the planned economy system, and comprehensively It has introduced and implemented advanced scientific research funding models and management concepts, established the review principles of "relying on experts, promoting democracy, supporting the best, and being fair and reasonable", established an operating mechanism of "scientific democracy, equal competition, and encouraging innovation", and established It has improved the science fund management system in which decision-making, execution, supervision, and consultation are mutually coordinated, forming a committee style of "justice, dedication, unity, and innovation" and giving full play to the "guidance, stability, and encouragement" of the Natural Science Foundation for basic research in my country. function, continuously develop and improve the management system based on the subject system as the framework, value evaluation and performance evaluation as the basis, and formulate a complete set of natural science fund management methods. At the same time, in accordance with the principles, guidelines and ideas of my country's science and technology work in the new era, based on the strategic needs of building a well-off society in an all-round way, and starting from the overall deployment of the construction of the national innovation system, the strategic positioning of the Natural Science Foundation in the national innovation system has been determined: "Support Basic research, insisting on free exploration, and playing a guiding role."