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Beijing Natural Science Fund Management

Original Language Title: 北京市自然科学基金管理办法

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Managing the natural science fund in Beijing

(Adopted at the 95th ordinary meeting of the Government of the Beijing Municipalities on 21 June 2011, No. 235 of 7 July 2011, published from 1 January 2012)

Contents

Chapter I General

Chapter II Planning and organization

Chapter III Application and evaluation

Chapter IV Funding and implementation

Chapter V Oversight and management

Annex VI

Chapter I General

In order to regulate the use and management of the natural science funds in this city, to enhance the effectiveness of the natural science funds, to develop scientific and technological talents, to build self-innovative capacities and to develop this approach in line with the laws, regulations and regulations of the People's Republic of China Science and Technology Progress Act.

Article 2

Article 3. The executive heads of the natural science and technology funds are responsible for researching the development of the management policy of the natural science funds and coordinating related work.

The municipal finance sector administers and oversees the budget, financial management and supervision of the Fund. The auditing authority conducts audit supervision of the use and management of the natural science funds in accordance with the law.

Article IV. The Government of the city has established the Commission of the Constitutional Fund of Beijing City (hereinafter referred to as “the Fund”) to prepare guidelines for the development planning and project of the natural science fund, to validate projects funded by the natural science fund and to consider major matters for the management of the natural science funds.

The Fund consists of scientists, engineering technical experts and management experts in the relevant sectors of the commune government. The composition of the Fund is nominated by the municipal science and technology administration and is presented to the Government of the city for approval. Members of the Fund were given a term of office for a term of five years for a term of two consecutive terms.

The Office of the Committee on the Natural Sciences of the city (hereinafter referred to as “the Fund”) assumes the day-to-day work of the Fund and is responsible for the specific implementation and management of the financing of the Fund.

Article 5 Funds should hire experts with higher academic levels and good professional ethics in the relevant disciplines as evaluation experts and establish a pool of experts for the evaluation of projects financed by the Fund.

The evaluation of the project shall be carried out from the scientific value of the project, innovation, the feasibility of the research programme, the applicant's research capacity, and the prospect of the project studies.

Article 6.

The municipal finance sector should include the funding of the natural science fund in the budget.

Natural persons, legal persons or other organizations are encouraged to fund basic research and application basic studies, including through joint funding with the natural science funds. Funding to the natural science fund is provided in accordance with national and present municipalities.

Article 7. The work of the natural science fund is guided by the principles of openness, equity and justice and upholds the principles of respect for science, democracy promotion, innovation, cooperation, alignment of resources and services.

Article 8. Identifying projects financed by the Fund should play a full role in evaluating the role of experts, adopting mechanisms for macro-directing, autonomous application, equal competition, peer evaluation, selection and support.

Chapter II Planning and organization

Article 9. The Fund shall, in accordance with the national economic and social development planning, science and technology development planning, around the strategic needs of the current city's economic and social development, prepare development plans for the natural science fund, establish a fund-raising system, clearly develop strategic objectives, research areas and research directions; and develop project guidance based on the development planning guidelines of the natural science funds, to clarify the scope of projects funded by the natural science fund.

The natural science funds have given priority to strategic, forward-looking application basic studies that are closely related to the economic and social development of the city, and to provide knowledge, technology and talent reserves for strategic emerging and emerging industries in this city.

In preparing the guidelines for the development planning and project of the Fund, the Fund shall be informed of the views of higher institutions, scientific research institutions, enterprises, the executive branch and other organizations to organize scientific evidence by relevant experts.

The development planning and project guidance of the natural science funds should be made public to society.

Article 11 Fund financing should be carried out through the Trust Fund. The Trust Unit performs the following responsibilities in fund-raising management:

(i) Organizing applicants for funding from the Fund;

(ii) Examination of the authenticity of submissions by the applicant, the project manager;

(iii) Provide the conditions for the implementation of the fund-raising projects to ensure the time of project heads and participants in the implementation of the fund-raising projects;

(iv) Coordinate with the Fund in overseeing and inspecting the implementation of funds-funded projects and the use of fund-raising funds.

The Fund should guide and oversee the management of fund-raising in the Trust Unit.

Article 12 Higher institutions within the city's administration, scientific research institutions, businesses and other organizations engaged in scientific research have the following conditions, and may apply for registration as a follow-up unit to the Fund:

(i) The establishment of legal personality within the city's administration and the availability of sound financial and asset management systems;

(ii) There are specialized scientific and scientific management systems;

(iii) There is a certain research base in the relevant research area, with team and basic conditions necessary to complete the project.

The Fund shall make a review decision within 15 days of the date of receipt of the registration application and inform the requesting unit. The reasons should be given.

Funds should be made available to society on the list of depository units.

Chapter III Application and evaluation

The scientific and technical personnel of the units involved in basic research and application of basic research within the city's administration have the following conditions, and may apply for funding from the natural scientific fund:

(i) The unit is the trustee unit;

(ii) Experience with basic research, application of basic research topics or other basic research, application of basic studies;

(iii) A high-level professional technical function (title) or a doctor's degree, or two scientific and technical personnel with the same research field, with high-level professional technical functions (titles).

The applicant is in accordance with paragraph 1 (ii), subparagraph (iii) of this article, where the unit is not based on the trustee or without the work unit, and may, with the consent of the requesting unit, apply to the Fund. It should be considered as a scientific and technical personnel of this unit to be administered in accordance with this approach.

In accordance with paragraph 1 (ii) and (iii) of this article, overseas science and technology personnel are subject to the agreement of the relevant trustee units and may apply for funding from the natural scientific fund for a period of three months each year for the work of the trustee units.

The applicant shall be the head of the Fund's funding project.

Article XIV encourages central science and technology personnel in Kyoto units to apply for funding from the natural science fund; and encourages higher institutions, scientific research institutions and business science and technology personnel to apply for the natural science fund. One applicant should be identified in the joint application.

Article 15. The applicant shall submit to the Fund, in accordance with the project guidelines and requests for requests, and shall be responsible for the authenticity of the material, through the trustee units within the specified period.

The applicant's application for funding project research elements has received other funding and should provide information on funding in the request materials.

Article 16 shall complete the preliminary review of the request material within 45 days of the date of the deadline for the funding of the Fund. It is admissible in accordance with the conditions of admissibility. One of the following cases is inadmissible:

(i) The applicant does not meet the conditions set forth in this approach;

(ii) The applicant or the participant apply, participates in the application, and the funds being implemented exceeds the amount specified;

(iii) The application of material is not in accordance with the project guide and the request.

Article 17, the Fund decided that it was inadmissible and that the applicant should be informed by the trustee.

The applicant contests the decision inadmissible and may submit a request for review to the Fund in writing, within 15 days of the date of receipt of the decision. The Fund shall complete its review within 15 days of the date of receipt of the review request. It was considered that the application for the project was inadmissible and was maintained and communicated to the applicant in writing through the trustee unit; it was considered that the application for the project was in accordance with the conditions of admissibility and removed its decision.

Article 18 Applications for projects that have been accepted will be evaluated by the Fund, in accordance with the selection rules of experts, from the peer expert pool. Experts applying for communications evaluation for each project shall not be less than three.

The evaluation expert's evaluation of the project application considers it difficult to make a scholarly judgement or not to participate in the evaluation, should be informed in a timely manner of the Fund; it should select other evaluation experts in accordance with this approach.

The Fund shall determine, in accordance with the project selection rules, the list of project applications for the evaluation of the Conference, based on the evaluation of the expert newsletter.

Article 19 Applications for projects that enter the evaluation of the Conference are evaluated by the expert evaluation team of the disciplines to determine the funding list of the proposed funds in a manner in which a vote was taken.

Article 20 should clarify the work of the Fund's funding list and provide clarification to the Fund. In accordance with the provisions of this approach and the expert evaluation opinion, the Fund considered the list of projects funded by the Fund and the selection process, identifying the list of projects to be funded.

Article 21 Funds for natural sciences are subject to a public appeal system. The Fund shall make the designation by the Fund of the project name to be funded, the basic circumstances of the project applicant, the name of the trust unit and the amount of funding available to the public and receive social oversight in the media designated by the municipal science and technology administration. The announcement was 30 days. In the view of the fact that the funding project had a situation such as false leave, which could be challenged by the Fund during the notice period, the Fund should verify it within 60 days.

The Fund shall communicate funding decisions to the trustee and the applicant. The reasons should be given for the decision not funded.

The Fund should evaluate the views of the applicant's feedback.

The applicant's appeal against the decision not to be funded could submit a request for review to the Fund in writing within 15 days of the date of receipt of the decision. The academic judgement of the evaluation expert differs from one point of view to making the application for review.

The Fund shall organize expert reviews from within 60 days of the date of receipt of the review request. The original decision is in compliance with the evaluation requirement and is maintained and communicated in writing to the applicant; the original decision is not in accordance with the evaluation requirement, the cancellation of the original decision, the organization of the evaluation and the evaluation findings are communicated in writing to the Tooko and the applicant.

Article 23, in the context of the Fund's funding project evaluation, members of the Fund, staff of the Fund, evaluation experts are close relatives of the applicant, close relatives of the participant, or other relationships with the applicant and the participant may affect fair evaluation.

The applicant and the participant shall not serve as an evaluation expert.

The applicant could provide the Fund with a list of three evaluation experts who were not in a position to assess their project requests, and the Fund should decide whether it should be avoided on the basis of actual circumstances when selecting an evaluation expert.

Article 24 Members of the Fund, staff of the Fund and evaluation experts shall be subject to confidentiality laws, regulations and confidentiality provisions.

Chapter IV Funding and implementation

Article 25 Upon 30 days from the date of receipt of the funding decision, the Trust and Project Manager shall complete the project mandate in accordance with the request for completion and report the approval of the Fund.

Funds should be administered in accordance with project mandates.

Article 26 Funds shall be financed by funds in accordance with the relevant provisions. The Trustee and Project Managers shall manage, use funds to fund projects in accordance with the provisions and project mandates.

Any unit or individual shall not be intrusive, detained or transferred to fund funding.

The Director-General of Article 27 shall carry out research work in accordance with the project mandate to make the original record of the Fund's fund-raising project implementation and to submit annual progress reports to the Fund through the Trustee Unit.

The Trust Unit shall review the annual progress report of the Fund on the funding project, review the original records of the Fund's funding project implementation and submit the annual management report to the Fund.

The Fund should review the annual progress report on the fund-raising project and the annual management report of the Fund's funding project.

Article 28 Fund-funded projects are not allowed to change project holder and trustee units. The project manager and the trustee shall not unauthorized change the content of the project mandate. In implementation, the project manager and the trustee should take timely measures to deal with and report to the Fund; the content of the project mandate would need to be changed or the project would be subject to suspension, termination, and the project manager or the trustee should submit written requests in a timely manner. The funds should be promptly verified and processed.

In the supervision of the inspection, the Fund found that the project manager, the trustee, had not worked in accordance with the terms of the project mandate, that funding would be subject to suspension or termination, and that funding projects could be discontinued or terminated in accordance with implementation.

Article 29 project holders shall submit project receipts to the Fund within 60 days of the expiration of the Fund's funding project, through the trustee units.

The Fund should organize expert review of the Fund's fund-raising projects, form the receipt and send the receipt to the trustee and project chiefs, and provide responses to outstanding receipts.

Article 33 The Office of the Fund, the trustee units shall establish the archives of the fund-funded projects in accordance with national scientific and technical archives management provisions.

Article 31 Fund-funded project receipts determine that the results of the research on the project have significant scientific values, major innovative breakthroughs or major applications, and that there is a need to continue to fund in-depth studies, which should be financed on a priority basis or recommended by the Fund for other science and technology plans.

The original record could prove that the project manager responsible for the exploration and high-risk fund-funded projects had fulfilled the duty-critical obligations and would not be able to complete the project and that the Fund could make a financial support project terminated.

The circumstances in which the project manager had previously provided for did not affect its continued application for funding projects.

Article 33 publishes research results obtained from fund-raising projects and should indicate funding from the natural science fund.

Article 34 should promote the protection of intellectual property rights protected by fund-raising project research results.

The natural science funds use the intellectual property generated by projects financed by financial funds, in addition to national security, national interests and the public interest of major societies, which are legally acquired by the trustee and project holders, participants. The Fund should guide the acquisition and use of intellectual property in project mandates, such as the trustee and the project manager, the participant.

The municipal science and technology administration should develop policies to encourage support and promote the results of research generated by fund-raising projects in the city.

Chapter V Oversight and management

Article XV should record the evaluation of the expert, the performance of the responsibilities of the trustee, the project manager's project implementation and establish a credit file for evaluation experts, trustee units and project chiefs.

Article 36 project applicants, participants in the Fund's request for leave and cancellation of their eligibility to participate in the evaluation of the current year; their application has been funded, the cancellation of funding and the recovery of funds already paid; and, in serious circumstances, the non-application or participation in the application of the natural science fund projects within five years.

Article 37 project applicants or project holder, project participants, who are copied, hijacked, expropriating the results of others' studies, may remove their eligibility for applications within the time limit, withdraw funding, cease funding allocations and recover funds allocated.

In one of the following actions in the implementation of the project by the heads of the thirty-eighth project and the participants, the Fund should be urged to change its duration and to temporarily reschedul the funding funds; the late inadjustment of funds, the recovery of funds already allocated; and, in serious circumstances, the non-application or participation in the application of the natural scientific fund project within five years:

(i) No research in accordance with the project mandate;

(ii) No annual progress report and receipt material for the funding of the Fund, as required;

(iii) Submission of false reports, original records or related materials;

(iv) Expropriation and misappropriation of funds.

Article 39 contains one of the following cases in the Trust Fund, which should be promoted by the Fund; in serious circumstances, the elimination of its eligibility as a follow-up unit within five years:

(i) Non-performance of the terms of research for projects financed by the Fund or supervision of the management of the use of funds;

(ii) No review of the authenticity of submissions or reports submitted by the applicant or the project manager;

(iii) No annual progress report on the funding of the Fund, the annual management report of the Fund's fund-raising project or the receipt of the material;

(iv) Condition, sheltering of applicants and project chiefs for leave;

(v) Authorized change of project holder;

(vi) No collaboration with the Fund's oversight, inspection fund-raising projects;

(vii) Exhibit, misappropriation and appropriation of funds.

Article 40 evaluates one of the following acts by experts, which should be promoted by the Fund; in serious circumstances, may not be employed as an evaluation expert within five years:

(i) No evaluation function is performed in accordance with the provisions;

(ii) No request for evasion in accordance with the provisions;

(iii) Disclosure of information relating to evaluation;

(iv) Use of work to facilitate unwarranted interests.

The evaluation expert has committed acts such as collation, theft, the intrusion of the results of other studies, and the Fund does not recruit its experts for evaluation over five years.

Article 40 should establish a fund-raising project results-based management information system, track and evaluate research results, and make the project's basic data, research results and relevant information available to society, except in accordance with the provisions of confidentiality.

Pursing units, project heads should actively undertake science and technology universal work, promote research results from fundraising projects and promote the application and adaptation of research results.

Article 42

Any units and individuals in Article 43 have the right to report to the municipal science and technology administration on the application of the project and the violation of the provisions of this approach. The municipal science and technology administration should be dealt with in a timely manner, following reports received.

The municipal science and technology administration should publish the telephone, communication addresses.

Article 44 commits violations of this approach, and other laws and regulations provide for administrative penalties, which are regulated by law by the relevant authorities; constitutes a criminal offence and are criminally prosecuted by law.

Article 42 Members of the Fund and staff of the Fund are one of the following acts, which are being restructured by the relevant sectoral order and are addressed in accordance with the relevant provisions:

(i) No request for evasion in accordance with the provisions;

(ii) Disclosure of undisclosed project applications and evaluation of information;

(iii) Intervention in the evaluation of expert evaluation;

(iv) Use of work to facilitate unwarranted interests.

Members of the Fund had previously provided for acts of serious nature, with the approval of the Government of the People of the Municipal Science and Technology Administration to withdraw their membership.

Annex VI

Article 46 of the Fund's funding work relates to the use and management of funds funded by project organizations for implementation fees and environmental conditions related to basic research, application of basic research, and implementation in accordance with the relevant provisions.

Article 47