Pursuant to the information released by the National Natural Science Foundation, in the project application period from March 1 to 20, 2018, this Foundation received 214,867 project applications totally, and accepted 211,462 applications through preliminary examination and reexamination. Pursuant to the Regulation of National Natural Science Foundation, the management regulation for relevant project of the Foundation and the review comments of experts, this Foundation decided to fund 41,250 projects, including 18,947 general projects, 701 significant projects, 1 major project, 106 significant international (regional) cooperative research projects, 17,671 projects of the Science Fund for Young Scholars, 400 projects of the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, 38 innovative research group projects, 102 cooperative research foundation projects of overseas and Hong Kong & Macao scholars, 2,937 projects of regional science foundations, 261 projects of partial joint foundation