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China's NSFC to Fund Young Researchers Without Short-Term Reviews
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SCMP Economy·3 hours ago·Science·1 min read·🇨🇳China

China's NSFC to Fund Young Researchers Without Short-Term Reviews

National Natural Science Foundation of China to select researchers under 35 for 15-year backing based solely on lab presence.

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Dou Xiankang, director of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, announced a new initiative to provide researchers under 35 with long-term financial backing assessed solely by their physical presence in the lab over a 15-year period.

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The National Natural Science Foundation of China is the country's top funder of basic research.

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Dou Xiankang, director of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the country’s top funder of basic research, told a recent academic forum that the agency was selecting a group of the brightest researchers under 35 for long-term financial backing.

Once this group of exceptionally brilliant young people was identified, their sole performance metric over a 15-year period would be “whether they are in the laboratory”, Dou said on September 19.

He said there would be no short-term performance reviews during this period. Those selected would be assessed on only one criterion: physical presence in the lab.

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