Application and Funding Status of Projects Associated with Diabetes in the Field of Chinese Medicine by National Natural Science Foundation of China During 2010-2019

This paper reviews and analyzes the proposals and grants associated with diabetes in the field of traditional Chinese medicine from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC) from 2010 to 2019. It also introduces the number and funding rate of the application and funding status of general, youth and regional projects, and the types of the funded diseases. We conclude that funded projects of diabetes are centered on the diseases which the traditional chinese medicine is good at diagnosis and treatment. Further analysis show that, NSFC prefer to support the project which face to clinical needs, focus on frontier scientific issues, pay attention to the basic research of TCM prevention and treatment of diabetes, promote interdisciplinary development, strengthen original innovation.However, there are some problems such as lack of theoretical support of TCM and unclear attribute of scientific problems.