The review results of proposals for National Natural Science Foundation have been announced by NNSFC recently. The proposals handed from IAE were 103 items and 35 were approved. The sum is RNB 25,621,700, higher than 2017. The items include 3 key projects (Applicants were Prof HAO Zhanqing, Prof HU Yuanman), 2 Outstanding Youth projects (Prof HAO Guangyou and WANG Xugao), 18 ordinary items, 11 youth items and 1 internationally cooperation item. According to the discipline classification, I youth items belongs to Chemistry, 20 items belong to life science including 1key project, 2 outstanding youth items,14 ordinary item and 3 youth items14 items belong to Earth Science,including 2 key projects, 4 ordinary, 7 youth and 1 international cooperation items.

Some items are summarized as following:

Three Key Projects：

1. Mechanisms Research on Productivity Time-Space Patterns of Broad Leaved- Korean Pine Forest and Its Maintenance, Based on the Big Plot for the Dynamics of the Forest. Applicant: Prof HAO Zhanqing.

2. The Atmospheric Environmental Effects of City Expansion and optimization of Landscape Patterns. Applicant: Prof HU Yuanman

3. Controlling Mechanisms and Modeling of Transient Unsaturated Migration of Pathogen in Soil.

4. Hydraulic Architecture of Trees. Applicant: Prof HAO Guangyou.

5. Maintenance Mechanisms of Biodiversity. Applicant: WANG Xugao.