Table 1.
The number of projects funded by NSFC for orthopaedic research from 2010 to 2019.
| Project Type | Year |
Sum | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |||
| Research-related Projects | General Program | 90 | 110 | 129 | 117 | 119 | 130 | 126 | 137 | 142 | 143 | 1243 |
| Key Program | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 26 | |
| Major Program | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| International (Regional) Cooperation and Exchange Program | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | |
| Major Research Plan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | |
| Talant-oriented Projects | Young Scientists Fund | 45 | 66 | 80 | 86 | 97 | 95 | 98 | 108 | 106 | 106 | 887 |
| Fund for Less Developed Regions | 9 | 15 | 19 | 17 | 21 | 27 | 22 | 25 | 24 | 25 | 204 | |
| Excellent Young Scientists Fund | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | |
| National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | |
| Science Fund for Creative Research Groups | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Joint Research Fund for Overseas Chinese Scholars and Scholars in Hong Kong and Macao | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |