With the release of latest funding results by the NSFC, 16 programs proposed by ITPCAS scientific staff were granted the fund. Among them, there is one Key Research Program with Prof. Junmeng Zhao as the PI, and one Key International (Regional) Cooperation Program with Prof. Xiaomin Fang as its PI. Besides, eight proposals for General Programs and six for Young Scientist’s Fund were also granted. In sum, the new round of funded research programs by the ITPCAS research staff in 2009 amounts to 8.62 million RMB.