Article 12 The State Publishing Fund is mainly used to subsidize the direct cost of outstanding public welfare publications that cannot be fully funded by market resources.

The main funding scope includes:

1. has a considerable publishing project, representing the highest research level of ideology, politics, literature, art, science and culture at this stage.

2. A publishing project that fills a gap in a certain discipline and has a positive role in promoting China's political, economic, cultural and social development.

3. Publishing projects with important ideological, scientific or literary and artistic values that have made great contributions to promoting the excellent national culture and timely reflecting the new achievements of science and culture at home and abroad.

4. Publishing projects with high historical value and academic achievements.

5. Publishing projects with special significance for maintaining national stability and national unity.

6. Excellent Braille and minority language publishing projects.

7 excellent "three rural" and minor reading and publishing projects.

8. Publishing projects that are of great significance and function in promoting the "going out" of China culture.

9 key publishing projects entrusted by the state.

10. Other outstanding public welfare publishing projects.

Thirteenth all the publishing projects that belong to the scope of the national scientific and technological academic works publishing fund and other financial funds or special financial funds are not included in the scope of the national publishing fund.