The National Fund generally refers to the National Natural Science Fund, which was established in the early 1980s to promote the reform of China's science and technology system and change the allocation of scientific research funds.

On February 1986, the State Council approved the establishment of the National Natural Science Foundation of People's Republic of China (PRC). The Natural Science Foundation insists on supporting basic research, and gradually forms and develops a funding pattern consisting of three series of research projects, talent projects and environmental conditions projects. Over the past 30 years, the Natural Science Foundation has made great achievements in promoting the development of basic research of natural sciences in China, promoting the construction of basic disciplines, and discovering and cultivating outstanding scientific and technological talents.

Time for accepting fund application:

From 2002, the application for the national fund of that year began on February 15 and ended on March 3 1. On March 25th-3rd1,centralized acceptance was arranged in the office building of NSFC (the mailing application and floppy disk were sent to the relevant acceptance departments of NSFC according to the postmark of the mailing date, and the floppy disk was sent by express delivery).

The above contents refer to Hefei University of Technology-? Notice on the application of 20021national natural science foundation project? Baidu Encyclopedia-National Natural Science Foundation