Du Nan reporter noted that in the general public budget expenditure table of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the expenditure on science and technology has increased substantially. Among them, the budget of the Ministry of Science and Technology for science and technology in 20021year is more than 53.8 billion yuan, an increase of12.42% over the implementation in 2020; The annual expenditure budget of the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2002/KLOC-0 is 33.347 billion yuan, which is 7.0% higher than that in 2020.
It is worth noting that the substantial increase in the budgets of science and technology expenditures of the above two departments is due to the substantial increase in investment in basic research. There is only "basic research" in the general budget expenditure table of the National Natural Science Foundation, accounting for more than 99% of the general budget expenditure. The National Natural Science Foundation of China explained that the increase was mainly due to the increase in project expenditures of the Natural Science Foundation and projects of the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars.
According to the expenditure table of the general public budget of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the budget of basic research, technology research and development, technical conditions and services 202 1 has increased compared with the implementation in 2020, but the remaining four projects, such as science and technology management affairs, applied research, science and technology popularization and science and technology exchange and cooperation, have all declined. Among them, the annual budget for basic research in 2002/kloc-0 is 7.69 billion yuan, an increase of 64.58% compared with the 4.67 billion yuan implemented in 2020.
The Ministry of Science and Technology further explained that "Science and Technology Conditions and Services" 202 1 The budget at the beginning of the year was increased by 1 15.86% compared with the implementation in 2020, which was mainly used for the special project of science and technology literature information and the investigation of science and technology basic resources. "Technology R&D" increased by 48.5 1%, mainly due to the increase in the budget of the National Scientific and Technological Achievements Transformation Guidance Fund.
Du Nan noted that the publicly released "14th Five-Year Plan" mentioned that it is necessary to increase financial investment in basic research and optimize the expenditure structure, and proposed that the growth of R&D funds of the whole society should be increased to more than 7% during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. According to the departmental budget of the Ministry of Science and Technology 202 1, "202 1, in accordance with the relevant requirements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on the tight life, vigorously reduce general expenditures, focus on reducing non-emergency non-rigid expenditures, and at the same time reasonably guarantee the expenditure demand for major scientific and technological tasks."