According to the information released by NSFC official website, the announcement time of the preliminary examination results and funding results is as follows: The fund management institution shall complete the preliminary examination of the application materials within 45 days from the deadline for funding projects. The preliminary results of centralized receiving projects are generally announced at the end of April or early May each year. When the funding results are announced, it usually takes about 5 months for the NSFC projects to be approved and completed. For most types of projects accepted centrally, the funding results are generally announced in the middle and late August of that year, and the rest of the projects are announced one after another according to the project review process. According to the guidelines and review process issued by the Natural Science Foundation of China, the funding results of projects with non-centralized acceptance period are announced one after another. For details, please refer to the notice on the website of NSFC.

In 2022, the preliminary examination results of the key time nodes of the national natural assessment were announced: the time for applying for review at the end of April or early May: the centralized acceptance results were announced at the beginning of May: the review time of other projects in the middle and late August: after August; In previous years, according to the usual practice, all undergraduate departments completed the evaluation of face-to-face teaching fields and other disciplines from the end of June to the beginning of July, and announced the list of experts.