The National Social Science Fund, referred to as the National Social Science Fund for short, was established with the approval of the State Council, 1986, and is managed by the National Office of Philosophy and Social Sciences.

The topic selection of the National Social Science Fund should focus on the major theoretical and practical problems in China's reform, opening up and socialist modernization, actively explore the laws of economic, political and cultural development in Socialism with Chinese characteristics, pay attention to basic research, emerging interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary comprehensive research, actively promote theoretical innovation, and support the rescue and collation of historical and cultural heritage of great value.