Abstract: This study analysis the trajectory and regularity in the space-time prism of research collaboration under NSFC funding of technical economics and management discipline in China, and focuses on the impact of distance on the scientific collaboration. the co-publications of technical economics and management discipline under NSFC funding between the year of 2000-2013 in China National Knowledge Infrastructure has been retrievaled, and entered into the database of fundamental research project of technical economics and management discipline. Based on this, the two hypotheses has been tested, and by using the OLS and SYS-GMM panel test of gravity model, we find that the effect of distance, self-collaboration effect and external-collaboration effect on research collaboration existed in short time, while hysteresis effect existed in the long run. Given this general trend, for technical economics and management discipline in China, NSFC should not only encourage the international scientific collaboration, but also lean on national collaboration for constructing the scientific collaboration system under virtuous operating mechanism.