A supporting institution shall inform the fund management organ and the project principal thereof within seven days as of the receipt of fund.

A project principal shall use the funds as required in the project plan, and a supporting institution shall surveil the project principal's use of the funds. No project principal or supporting institution may steal or misappropriate the funds by any means. The specific measures for the use and management of funds subsidies shall be formulated by the competent authority of finance of the State Council together with the fund management organ.

Article 23 A project principal shall organize and implement the research work in light of the project scheme, make original records on the implementation of the funded project, and submit an annual progress report concerning the project to the fund management organ.

A supporting institution shall inspect the annual progress reports concerning the funded projects, check the original records on the implementation of the funded projects, and file the annual reports concerning the management on funded projects to the fund management organ.

The fund management organ shall inspect the annual progress reports on the projects and the annual reports concerning the management on funded projects.

Article 24 The supporting institution may not change the project principal without approval while a funded project is being implemented.

In case of any of the following circumstances occurs to a project principal, the supporting institution shall submit an application for altering this project principal or terminating the implementation of the funded project in a timely manner, and report it to the fund management organ for approval; and the fund management organ may directly make a decision concerning terminating the implementation of the funded project:

(1) He is no more a science and technology personnel of the supporting institution;

(2) He cannot continue to implement the research work; or

(3) He steals the scientific research achievements of someone else or resorts to fraud in scientific research.

Where a project principal shifts his post to another supporting institution, the former supporting institution may submit an application for altering the supporting institution to the fund management organ for approval upon negotiations between the new supporting institution and the former supporting institution. If it fails to reach agreement between the new supporting institution and the former supporting institution upon negotiations, the fund management organ shall make a decision on terminating the implementation of the funded project under the charge of the said project principal.

Article 25 Where it is necessary to make some major adjustments to the research contents or research plans during the process of implementation of a funded project, the project principal shall timely submit an application, and apply to the fund management organ for approval upon examination of the supporting institution.

Article 26 A project principal shall submit a concluding report to the fund management organ through the supporting institution within 60 days as of the expiration of the funded project; and as regards a funded project that obtains the research achievements, a research achievement report shall be submitted at the same time.

A supporting institution shall verify the concluding report and establish the archives on funded projects. When examining a concluding report, a supporting institution shall check the original records on the implementation of the funded project.

Article 27 The fund management organ shall examine the concluding reports in a timely manner. As regards a concluding report that fails to satisfy the requirements to conclude the topics, the fund management organ shall give its opinions and notify them to the supporting institution and the project principal in written form.

The fund management organ shall announce the abstracts of the concluding reports, research achievement reports and applications for funded projects, and solicit the comments and opinions of the general public.

Article 28 Where any funded project obtains the research achievements, it shall indicate that it is funded by the National Natural Science Funds when it is publicized.

Chapter V Supervision and Administration

Article 29 The fund management organ shall take a sample survey on the implementation of the funded projects and the performance of duties by the supporting institutions, and shall check the original records on the implementation of the funded projects at the time of survey. The results of sample survey shall be recorded and publicized, and can be consulted by the general public.

The fund management organ shall set up archives on the credits of project principals and supporting institutions.

Article 30 The fund management organ shall regularly assess the performance of appraising duties by evaluation experts, and set up archives on the credits of evaluation experts according to the evaluation results; and it may not employ those who have stolen scientific research achievements of others or resorted to fraud in scientific research.

Article 31 At the end of each accounting year, the fund management organ shall publish the funded projects, the allotment of funds and the punishments to those acts against these Regulations, etc. in this year.

The fund management organ shall assess the work on the grant of funds at regular intervals, publish the evaluation reports, and regard the evaluation reports as the evidence for formulating the fund development plan and the annual directory of funded projects.

Article 32 The applicant may show his opinions to the fund management organ concerning the evaluation work of evaluation experts after the evaluation experts have brought forward their