Article 11 The Science Department of the Science Department of the Natural Science Foundation of China shall, in accordance with the requirements of the Regulations, make a preliminary examination of the accepted application items. Projects that do not meet the requirements will not be reviewed after approval by the Ministry of Science and Technology.
Article 12 The Ministry of Science shall select peer experts to review the application projects that have passed the preliminary examination according to the requirements of the Regulations, and generally adopt the communication review method. Applications with similar contents should be evaluated by the same expert group as far as possible. Interdisciplinary application projects should be evaluated by experts from different disciplines.
Thirteenth each application is generally reviewed by five peer experts, and the effective peer review opinions that can be used as the basis for review shall not be less than three.
Article 14 The Ministry of Science comprehensively analyzes the peer review opinions and submits the selected application items to the expert review team for deliberation. The number of projects submitted for consideration must be greater than 130% of the number of projects approved by the plan.
Fifteenth in the case of similar comprehensive evaluation, the previous funded projects with excellent quality, outstanding achievements and in line with the relevant provisions of the Natural Science Foundation of China can be submitted to the expert review group for key consideration, and it is recommended to give priority to funding.
Sixteenth for exploratory and high-risk application projects, it can be suggested to give small grants to carry out pre-research and exploratory research, and the funding period is generally one year.
Seventeenth the Ministry of science organized a meeting of the expert review group to review the projects applied for that year. The Ministry of Science shall report to the expert review group on the preliminary examination, peer review and funding indicators of the projects applied for in that year. The expert review team fully discussed and deliberated the projects, and determined the projects recommended by the Natural Science Foundation of China by secret ballot. The adopted scheme must be approved by more than half of the voters.
When the expert review group considers a matter, the members who should avoid it must avoid the discussion process of the item, but they can participate in the voting of the item.
Eighteenth expert review group may request to read the peer review results of projects that are not recommended for consideration by the Ministry of Science. If there is a need for reconsideration of the project, it must be put forward by two or more members of the expert review group before it can be included in the review.
Article 19 The project submitted for reconsideration by the members of the expert review team and the application project for which the fund project for which the applicant is responsible has been suspended, cancelled and overdue in the past three years shall be approved by more than two thirds of the voters.
Twentieth for innovative exploration projects, in the review meeting can not obtain * * * knowledge, can be signed by the expert review team or individual members of the Ministry of Science, recommended to the Ministry of Science, clear the reasons and ways to be funded, by the meeting of directors of the Ministry of Science for consideration. If you need funding, you can use the general project funds of the Ministry of Science and Technology in that year, or you can use the director fund of the Ministry of Science and Technology.
Article 21 The Ministry of Science shall, according to the funding proposal of the expert review group, put forward the funding proposal of the Ministry of Science, which shall be approved by the director in charge of the Committee and submitted to the Committee meeting for approval. Projects whose funding amount exceeds three times the estimated average funding intensity of general projects in that year shall be examined and approved by the Economic Affairs Conference item by item.
Article 22 The Ministry of Science shall, according to the examination and approval results of the Committee meeting, issue a notice of approval of funding to the applicant and the project supporting unit, and give feedback on the reasons for not granting funding.