Top three. The top three have received more funding, and the Natural Science Foundation is the funding for basic scientific research. This project is national and organized and implemented by the Ministry of Science and Technology. All provinces also have this organization, and the level is provincial-level scientific research projects. The problem is that, generally speaking, this project is difficult to implement at the provincial level, because basic research often takes a long time and a lot of money, and there are often relatively few experts to assess the needs.