On 18th of the month, the list of projects to be funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2020 was announced. 6 projects of Hubei University of Economics have been listed as projects to be funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (2 general projects and 4 youth fund projects). The project “Carbon leakage factors, key motives and prevention measures: from the perspective of carbon market quasi-natural experiment in China” initiated by Sun Yongping, a professor with the School of Low Carbon Economics, was listed as a general project to be funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
According to relevant sources, the National Natural Science Foundation of China received 269671 applications this year, evaluated 267541 applications after initial and repeated reviews, and approved 32486 projects. The share of successful applications is 12.14% (5.2% less than 2019).