On May 8, 2017, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation announced the final results of the 61th projects that will be supported. Four projects from Institute for Energy Research passed the final voting and got the funds from China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, including two first-class funds and two second-class funds. The China Postdoctoral Science Foundation have two classes, 8,0000 RMB for first-class and 5,0000 RMB for second-class.