The National Natural Science Foundation of China insisted on supporting basic research, and gradually formed and developed a funding pattern consisting of three series of research projects, talent projects and environmental conditions projects. Over the past 30 years, the National Natural Science Foundation of China 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.

The major research plan of the National Natural Science Foundation of China is the highest level, the largest funding scale and the most authoritative project category in the National Natural Science Foundation at present. Mainly around the country's major strategic needs and major scientific frontiers, we will unite scientific goals and strengths to form a project cluster with relatively unified goals or directions.