The Ministry of Science and Technology of the PRC has initiated the application for the National Key R&D Program of "Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine" and "Green Biofabrication"  2021. Details of application requirements are as follows:

1.  Funding fields

Please find more details of research contents as attached(Annex 1).

2.  Funding amount and duration

The duration of program is three or four years, please refer Annex 1 for the funding intensity.

3.  Requirements

A. Applicants shall meet the following qualifications:

(1) Born on or after January 1, 1961;

(2) Have senior academic title or PhD degree;

(3)Shall not less than six months per year for researching.

B. Shall conduct collaborative research with researchers from research institutes, enterprises and universities within China;

C. Agreements（the agreement should include terms of division of tasks, ownership of intellectual property, etc.）shall be signed by the applicants and the whole collaborative institutions;

D. Applicant shall only apply for one project concurrently;

E. The total number of the national programs(except for NSFC programs) a researcher applies for (including as applicant and main participant) and undertakes (including as applicant and main participant) shall not exceed 2;

F. Shall upload employment proof for applicants from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and foreign countries;

G. Proposal shall be written in Chinese;

H. Applicants shall read the application guide(Annex 2)carefully for more specific requirements.

4.  Procedure of application

Online application

Applicants shall fill out pre-application forms and upload supplementary documents online via the application system ( http://service.most.gov.cn ) .

※ For applicants who have no login ID, please send your name, gender, academic title, email address, telephone number, office phone, ID type, ID number to kevingao@cuhk.edu.cn by July 20,2021 to open account.

Paperless submission

In the stage of submission, applicants shall only submit online application, without submitting any hard copies.

5.  Deadline

Applicants shall submit pre-application forms online by noon on Aug.10, 2021.

6. Contact information

Gao Shang       kevingao@cuhk.edu.cn