There are no accurate statistics on the number of postdoctoral fellows in China. There are 1.363 postdoctoral research mobile stations in 343 universities and research institutes nationwide, and the specialties have covered 86 first-class disciplines in 1.2 disciplines.
In China, getting a doctorate is a necessary condition for becoming a postdoctoral fellow, but there are also some researchers abroad who do not have a doctorate, but they are postdoctoral fellows, so postdoctoral fellows have scientific research experience. Generally, postdoctoral time is not long, which is a transitional arrangement for scientific research.
The national postdoctoral fund supports postdoctoral students for two years. Foreign universities generally have no unified arrangement for postdoctoral students, and the source of funds and the length of time are relatively flexible. On September 6, 2022, Ren Youqun, director of the Department of Teacher Affairs of the Ministry of Education, said at the press conference that the next step will be to promote universities to expand the number of postdoctoral students and use postdoctoral staff as an important source of supplementary teachers.
65438-0876 Johns Hopkins University established a research fund to help outstanding young scholars engage in scientific research under better research conditions. People call them "postdoctoral fellows" because four of the 20 people who were initially funded by the Fund received their doctorates.