Sixth outstanding youth fund projects to implement fixed subsidies.

Seventh recipients should be in accordance with the provisions of these measures, in line with the principle of seeking truth from facts and careful calculation, the preparation of practical project funds budget. The project supporting unit shall strictly review the project budget in accordance with the relevant provisions, and report to the Natural Science Foundation of China after signing the opinions.

Article 8 The project capital budget includes revenue budget and expenditure budget.

The income budget includes funds from various channels for project research. Including outstanding youth fund, project support units and other channels.

Expenditure budget includes scientific research funds, international cooperation and exchange funds, labor costs and management fees.

(1) scientific research funds refer to the expenses directly used for scientific research. Including:

Scientific research business expenses: experiment, calculation and analysis expenses, power and energy expenses, travel expenses, research and academic conference expenses, publication and printing expenses of materials and papers, information and communication expenses such as document retrieval and network access, and subscription fees of academic journals. Experimental materials expenses: the purchase expenses of consumables such as raw materials, reagents and medicines, the purchase, planting and breeding expenses of experimental animals and plants, the collection and processing expenses of specimens and samples, and the packaging and transportation expenses. Expenses of instruments and equipment: expenses for purchasing, transporting, installing and maintaining special instruments and equipment, and expenses for purchasing and processing materials and accessories of self-made special instruments and equipment. Laboratory renovation fee: the cost of laboratory renovation to improve the experimental conditions of funded project research. Shall not be used for laboratory expansion, civil engineering, housing maintenance and other expenses. Cooperation fee: to cooperate with other units to undertake some research and experimental work of the outstanding youth fund project. (2) Funds for international cooperation and exchange refer to funds used for the following purposes:

The expenses for international cooperation and exchange directly related to research work in the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, including part of the expenses for the visits of recipients and foreign experts, shall not exceed 20% of the funds funded by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and the amount of foreign exchange required shall be settled by itself. Overseas, Hong Kong and Macao young scholars cooperative research fund winners shall not exceed 20% of the annual round-trip travel expenses and accommodation subsidies funded by the Outstanding Young Scholars Fund during the funding period. (3) Labor costs refer to the labor costs of graduate students and postdoctoral students who directly participate in the project research. The service fee shall not exceed 10% of the fund for outstanding youth.

(four) the management fee refers to the expenses incurred by the project supporting unit for organizing and supporting the project research, including public instruments and equipment, housing occupation fees, etc. During the project implementation. The management fee shall not exceed 5% of the funds funded by the Outstanding Youth Fund, and the cooperative unit shall not repeat the extraction.

Article 9 The Natural Science Foundation of China organizes experts or selected intermediaries to review or evaluate the research budgets of funded projects, and the amount of funding is determined according to the funding situation of various projects of the Outstanding Youth Fund and the opinions of the review experts, as well as the relevant financial system, in accordance with the prescribed procedures.

Tenth grantees must use the project funds in strict accordance with the purposes, scope and expenditure standards approved in the approved project fund budget.

Eleventh approved project budget is generally not adjusted. Due to the adjustment of project research objectives, major technical routes or main research contents, as well as unexpected losses caused by force majeure and other reasons, which have a great impact on the project budget, it must be reported to the Natural Science Foundation of China for approval according to procedures.

Twelfth project funds shall not be used to pay all kinds of fines, donations, sponsorship, investment and other expenses, shall not be used for all kinds of welfare expenses, and shall not be used for other expenses prohibited by the state.

Thirteenth project supporting units should strengthen the management of project funds. Project funds must be earmarked, and no unit or individual may intercept, occupy or misappropriate them for any reason or way.

Fourteenth in the research funded projects annual surplus funds, carried forward to the next year to continue to use. The remaining funds of the project are still used for the basic research of natural science or some applied research work of the project supporting units.