国家自然科学基金 z-bio 2025-03-24 248

　　The National Natural Science Foundation of China recently held the third plenary meeting of the ninth committee in Beijing, summarizing the work of the Science Foundation of China in the past year and studying and deploying the work for 2025.

　　Yin Hejun, Secretary of the Party Group and Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. Yin Hejun pointed out that in the past year, the National Natural Science Foundation of China has revised and implemented the "Regulations of the National Natural Science Foundation of China", expanded diversified investment channels and scale, supported the development of various disciplines in basic research, continuously cultivated scientific and technological talents and innovation teams, taken substantive steps in clearing the "hat" of talents, vigorously strengthened the construction of academic style, achieved phased results in special rectification, and continuously expanded international scientific and technological cooperation, making important contributions to enhancing China's original innovation capabilities and supporting the realization of high-level self-reliance and self-improvement.

　　Yin Hejun emphasized that the current internal and external environment for China's development has undergone profound changes, and the changes in the world, the times, and history are unfolding in unprecedented ways. Strengthening basic research is not only an urgent requirement for effectively responding to internal and external risks and challenges, achieving high-level technological self-reliance and self-improvement, but also an inevitable choice for us to move from the unknown to the known, from uncertainty to certainty. It is also a strategic need to accelerate the construction of a technological powerhouse and contribute China's wisdom to the progress of human civilization. Anchoring the goal of building a strong science and technology country by 2035, the National Natural Science Foundation of China will strengthen the systematic layout of basic research, continuously enhance project and fund supervision, fully leverage the unique role of science funds, explore and improve the funding mechanism for non consensus projects, cultivate and introduce high-level scientific and technological talents, actively expand international scientific and technological cooperation channels, and make new and greater contributions to accelerating the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and building a strong science and technology country with the firm determination and tenacious will of "sharpening a sword in ten years".

　　Dou Xiankang, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, delivered a report on the work of the entire committee. He stated that in 2024, the National Natural Science Foundation of China will focus on "quality improvement", continuously optimize the management system of scientific fund funding, take multiple measures to build a high-quality basic research team, carry out graded evaluation and continued funding for youth projects (A), promote the return of talent projects to academic nature, optimize the diversified investment mechanism of scientific funds, strengthen scientific and technological strategic consulting, actively carry out international cooperation and exchanges, deepen the special rectification of experts being "greeted", lawfully govern scientific research misconduct, and successfully complete various tasks of annual funding management. In 2025, under the leadership of the Central Science and Technology Commission, the National Natural Science Foundation of China will adhere to the "four orientations" and the "two legged approach" of goal orientation and free exploration, strengthen organized basic research, coordinate the deployment of basic research, applied basic research, and talent cultivation, carry out non consensus project funding, build a funding pattern of "youth student projects youth projects team projects", continuously improve the effectiveness of scientific fund funding, and promote high-quality development of basic research.