What does the Analysis and Testing Fund mean?

Analysis and Testing Fund

In order to encourage the scientific researchers of the institute to actively use the instruments and equipment of the institute-level public technical service center (hereinafter referred to as the institute-level center) , support scientific researchers to carry out scientific research and innovative research, and establish a research institute analysis and testing fund (hereinafter referred to as the fund).

The source of the fund is the operating subsidy allocated to institute-level centers by the hospital.

The fund supports research groups undertaking ongoing research tasks at the institute.

The fund is used to pay the testing fees incurred by using the instruments and equipment of the institute-level center.

70% of the total testing fees incurred by the research group using institute-level center instruments can be paid by the fund, and the other 30% can be paid by the research group at its own expense. Fund applications are based on research groups, and the total annual application amount for each research group is limited to RMB 5,000.

The Financial Assets Division accepts fund applications centrally once a year. The fund application information will be published on the institute’s intranet before November 20 of each year and fund applications will be accepted; the fund review will be completed in mid-December, and the fund will be announced and included in the department’s budget for the following year; the quota will be issued and activated in January of the following year.

Fund funding will be allocated in the form of quotas by the Financial Assets Division, and the research group whose application is approved will be notified in writing.

After the test task is completed, the tester signs the "Inspection Business Settlement Statement" and submits it to the Financial Assets Department. After the Financial Assets Department approves the "Inspection Business Settlement Statement", the used quota will be allocated to the unit.

The amount of fund support can only be used by the research group whose application has been approved and cannot be transferred to other research groups.

Research groups that use the fund should use the quota according to the specified time and purpose. The fund amount applied for that year must be used up before the end of October of that year. The unused fund amount that year will not be carried forward across years, and the remaining amount will be recovered by the Financial Assets Department.

Approval status of fund applications in 2014

According to the provisions of the "Interim Management Measures for the Analysis and Testing Fund of the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences" (Dong Nei Zi [2012] No. 10), after each Research group applications were reviewed by the Institute-level Technology Platform Management Committee, and the following research groups received funding support.