Generally, it takes about 5 months for the projects of the National Natural Science Foundation to be received and approved.

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.