Recently, The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) released the annual project grants. Until now, BJUT has obtained 115 funded projects with approved direct funding of more than 75 million Yuan.

The 115 projects supported by NSFC include one project from the Innovation Research Group, one project of Major National Scientific Research Equipment Design, one from the Joint Research Fund for overseas, Hong Kong and Macao Scholars, four Projects of International Cooperation and Exchange, two Projects of Emergency Management, 59 projects of face items, 41 projects from the Young Scientist Funds of China, three of key projects, and three Distinguished Young Scientist Funds of China. This year, BJUT applied 406 project grands and 392 were applied during the project accepting period.

The range of grants are considerably wide this year. The Innovation Research Group project “Ecological Environmental Material and Preparation Engineering”, led by Professor Nie Zuoren from College of Materials Science and Engineering was funded. This type of grant is for young scientists to jointly conduct innovative research focusing on one important direction and to bring up them into one international scientific research group. This is the second time that BJUT has obtained this type of grant since 2014, which is ahead of other universities nationwide. Three professors who obtained the Distinguished Young Scientist Funds of China were Professor Wei Haijun from College of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor Han Honggui from College of Electronic Information and Control Engineering, and Associate Professor Deng Jiguang from College of Environmental and Energy Engineering.

Professor Ma Guowei from the College of Architecture and Civil Engineering received the funding for project of Major National Scientific Research Equipment Design. Key projects applied by Professor Shi Zhaoyao from the College of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Electronics Technology, Cheng shuiyuan from the College of Environmental and Energy Engineering and Song Xiaoyan from the College of Materials Science and Engineering were approved, too. Stable progress in general projects and Young Scientist Funds of China continues to be made. All the achievements indicated that the comprehensive competitiveness of BJUT has been improved year by year and the competence of doing high level projects enhanced gradually.

Beside these projects, some projects are still under assessment. The number of approved funded project is increasing. BJUT has maintained a steady success in obtaining the NSFC project grants and made some breakthroughs in the recent years. The NSFC has become an important funding source of scientific researchers of BJUT.