On May 26, 2025, the Party Group of the National Natural Science Foundation of the Communist Party of China held a theoretical learning center group study meeting and in-depth implementation of the spirit of the Central Eight point Regulation study and education class. The class focused on in-depth study and implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important discourse on strengthening the Party's work style construction, and earnestly studied and understood the spirit of the Central Eight point Regulation and its implementation rules, promoting continuous deepening and implementation of learning and education. Party Secretary and Director Dou Xiankang presided over the meeting and delivered a speech. Members of the Party Committee and leadership team, including Wang Xiqin, Lu Jianhua, Zhang Xuemin, Jiang Song, Wu Lizhu, and Han Yu, successively led the study of relevant content. The main responsible comrades of each department and directly affiliated unit, as well as relevant comrades from the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission stationed in the Ministry of Science and Technology, attended the meeting as observers.

  Everyone unanimously agrees that through the study in the reading class, we have gained a deeper understanding of the importance and overall requirements of strengthening the Party's work style construction, and have a deeper grasp of the essence and essence of the Central Eight point Regulation and its implementation rules. We will continue to make efforts to strengthen learning and education, and effectively transform the learning results into a highly conscious effort to temper Party spirit and strengthen work style, ensuring the high-quality development of the scientific fund cause with excellent work style.

  The meeting pointed out that strengthening the construction of the Party's style of work is a distinctive character of the Marxist political party to maintain the progressiveness and purity of the Party, an inevitable requirement to close the relationship between the Party and the masses, to consolidate the long-term ruling foundation of the Party, and an important guarantee to promote the reform and development of the Science Fund and accelerate the construction of a scientific and technological power. We must grasp and promote the construction of work style from a political perspective of firmly supporting the "two consolidations" and resolutely upholding the "two safeguards". We must further focus on understanding, comprehending, and implementing the work style, highlight problem orientation, adhere to strict standards, and comprehensively promote learning inspection and reform. We must strictly and practically implement various tasks of learning and education.

  The meeting emphasized that it is currently a critical stage for the evaluation of the Science Foundation of China. The entire committee should further deepen their ideological understanding, maintain strategic determination, and effectively integrate learning and education with project evaluation work in all aspects. We must always tighten the string of discipline, adhere to a strict tone, strict measures, and strict atmosphere, solidly promote the comprehensive deepening reform of the Science Fund, strengthen the attributes of Science Fund projects, resolutely eliminate the tendency of talent projects to be titled and labeled, continue to consolidate the achievements of the special rectification of experts being "greeted", strictly implement the "Regulations on Party and Government Organs Practicing Frugality and Opposing Waste", and deeply promote the rectification of formalism to reduce the burden on grassroots personnel, streamline culture and meetings, and implement the requirements of "tight living" in all aspects of work. We must vigorously promote the glorious traditions of the Party and the spirit of scientists, cultivate a new trend of seeking truth, pragmatism, integrity, and honesty, truly invest valuable scientific and technological resources in the most innovative and dynamic frontline researchers, continuously improve the effectiveness of scientific funding, and make new and greater contributions to the construction of a strong country in science and technology.