Rapid growth of environmental research in China

作     者：Guibin Jiang Chunxia Wang X.Chris Le 

作者机构：State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100085 China Division of Environmental Chemistry Department of Chemical Sciences National Natural Science Foundation of China Beijing 100085 China Division of Analytical and Environmental Toxicology Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry University of Alberta Edmonton AB T6G 2G3 Canada 

出 版 物：《Journal of Environmental Sciences》 (环境科学学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2016年第28卷第1期

页      面：1-3页

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学科分类：083001[工学-环境科学] 0830[工学-环境科学与工程（可授工学、理学、农学学位）] 08[工学] 

基　　金：Environmental research in China has grown tremendously over the last thirty years. This rapid and sustained growth has been supported by the remarkable increases in research funding  the number of graduate students  the degree-offering programs in environmental sciences and engineering  the state-of-the-art facilities  and international collaboration.In 1986 when the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) was established  its total research budget was only eight million Yuan (CNY)  or about one million U.S. dollars at the time. In 2015  the NSFC's research funding for the Department of Chemical Sciences'  Division of Environmental Chemistry alone was 208 million Yuan  or about 30 million U.S. dollars! Over the past thirty years  we have witnessed exponential increases in the number of environmental projects funded and the level of funding for each project ( Fig. 1 ). For example  the Division of Environmental Chemistry of the NSFC was only able to support 17 environmental chemistry research projects in 1989. But in 2006  115 environmental chemistry research projects were funded. This increasing trend continues  with 335 projects funded in 2011  and 379 projects funded in 2015. Importantly  the funding amount from the Division of Environmental Chemistry of the NSFC increased by nearly three orders of magnitude over the three decades  from 0.356 million Yuan in 1989 to 29.9 million Yuan in 2006  142 million Yuan in 2011  and 208 million Yuan in 2015. In addition  environmental scientists also receive substantial amounts of research funding from the Earth Sciences Division of the NSFC and from other funding agencies and organizations  such as the Ministry of Science and Technology  Ministry of Environmental Protection  Ministry of Education  Ministry of Health  and a variety of provincial and municipal funding agencies 

主　　题：Rapid growth of environmental research in China 

摘      要：Environmental research in China has grown tremendously over the last thirty *** rapid and sustained growth has been supported by the remarkable increases in research funding,the number of graduate students,the degree-offering programs in environmental sciences and engineering,the state-of-the-art facilities,and international collaboration.