May 13, 1981 (, yau April the tenth), the establishment of the science funding system. Reference, 1981 March 13, (history cn) the Acdemy Assembly Chinese Academy of Sciences, 4th held in Beijing (history. cn) Party and state leaders Deng Xiaoping and Peng Zhen, Deng Yingchao, etc. attended the meeting. At the general meeting of 89 scientists in a joint submission to the Party Central Committee and the State Council proposed the establishment of the Faculty of fund.

Natural Science Foundation to support basic research of China's Natural Science. From them 10 years from 1981 to 1991, the use of allocated by the State Natural Science Foundation funded more than 20,000 scientific research, more than 100 key projects, a strong impetus to the development of China's basic scientific research. Over 10 million scientific and technical personnel, MA, PhD, and hundreds of postdoctoral be funded has won several National Natural Science Award, the National Science and Technology Progress Award, National Invention Award, and a lot of scientific research into productivity. The establishment of the Natural Science Foundation of the invention to encourage scientific and technological personnel played a huge role in creating.