Recently, the list of humanities and social science research projects authorized by Ministry of Education of the PRC in 2021 has been published, and 16 projects of NENU won the fund from Ministry of Education of the PRC, which includes 6 plan fund projects, 7 youth fund projects, 2 special projects of study on theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and 1 special project of study on instructors of institutions of higher learning.
NENU applied for 105 humanities and social science research projects of Ministry of Education of the PRC in total in 2021, with authorization rate reaching 15.2%. From the perspective of discipline distribution, disciplines including Marxism (ideological and political education), pedagogy, etc. preserved their traditional advantages, and interdisciplines (comprehensive study) especially study on intersection of arts and sciences, made prominent progress. With respect to age structure, the authorization rate of youth fund projects outnumbered 50%.
In the future, NENU will further strengthen the top design of research strategies, fortify cultivation towards young teachers through perfecting cultivating system, intensify basic study, promote intersection of disciplines, build new academic growth point, in order to obtain new breakthrough in respect of the general scale of research authorization, and make contributions to high quality development of NENU in “fourteenth five-year plan” in terms of social science.
(From Social Science Department, NENU, translated by Zhang Zenghua, revised by Chen Yanxu)