The state has established natural science funds to fund basic research and support talent training and team building. When determining projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation, the principles of macro guidance, independent application, equal competition, peer review, and merit-based support should be adhered to.

The state improves an efficient, collaborative, and open national innovation system, coordinates scientific and technological innovation and institutional innovation, improves the new national system under the conditions of the socialist market economy, gives full play to the decisive role of the market in allocating innovation resources, and gives better play to The role of the government is to optimize the allocation of scientific and technological resources, improve resource utilization efficiency, promote close cooperation among various innovation entities, orderly flow of innovation elements, and continue to optimize the innovation ecology, enhance systematic capabilities and key breakthrough capabilities, and enhance the overall effectiveness of the innovation system. The country builds and strengthens national strategic scientific and technological forces with national laboratories, national science and technology research and development institutions, high-level research universities, and leading scientific and technological enterprises as important components, and plays a strategic supporting and leading role and major original roles in key areas and key directions. Innovate efficiency and serve the country’s major strategic needs.

According to Article 5 of the Science and Technology Progress Law of the People's Republic of China, the state coordinates development and security, improves science and technology security governance capabilities, improves systems and mechanisms to prevent and resolve science and technology security risks, and strengthens The safety management of scientific and technological research, development and application activities supports scientific and technological innovation in the field of national security and enhances the ability and level of scientific and technological innovation to support national security.