On Aug 17, 2016, Natural Science Foundation of China announced the final results of the projects that will be supported. Seven projects from Institute for Energy Research passed the final voting and got the funds from Natural Science Foundation of China, including 3 general funds and 4 youth funds, of a total 2.75 million RMB. Within three years, researches in Institute for Energy Research got 14 funds from Natural Science Foundation of China, which is about 6 million RMB.