The establishment, selection and management of fund projects must follow the principles of "relying on experts, promoting democracy, supporting the best, being fair and reasonable" and the operating mechanism of "equal competition, scientific democracy and encouraging innovation", implement the relevant provisions of avoidance and confidentiality, and accept the supervision of scientific and technological circles and society.
Fund projects shall be subject-based management, and cost compensation and fixed subsidies shall be implemented according to the actual needs of project type, scale and management. The management and use of project funds must comply with the relevant financial and financial systems of the state and the Natural Science Foundation of China.
Research projects, that is, scientific research projects, are a series of unique, complex and interrelated activities to carry out scientific and technological research. These activities have clear goals or objectives and must be completed in accordance with the norms within a specific time, research budget and resources.
The National Natural Science Foundation is an important part of the national innovation system. It mainly subsidizes the basic research and some applied research of natural science, and focuses on supporting researchers in universities and scientific research institutions with good research conditions and strong research strength. The National Natural Science Foundation of China (hereinafter referred to as NSFC) is responsible for the implementation and management.
A project refers to a category divided by things or a complex comprehensive scientific research problem composed of several interrelated topics.
There are differences and connections between themes and projects. On the one hand, the topic is the most basic unit of scientific research, and the organic combination of topics forms a project; On the other hand, the criteria for dividing themes and projects are relative. For a researcher or research group, we can also start from a single topic, deepen and form a series of topics, and then form a project, or after undertaking a topic, divide it into several topics to study one by one, and finally make a major breakthrough.