Abstract: Based on the career growth data of national Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) laureates, the research focuses on the influence of tutor status on the selection of talent plan of scientific researchers by using the event history analysis method. The main conclusions are as follows: First, the academic status of tutors will independently have a significant positive impact on the selection of researchers into national and provincial talent programs, that is, researchers with higher academic status of tutors are more likely to be selected into the two levels of talent programs at a faster rate. At the same time, this effect is relatively stronger in the national talent plan. Second, the tutor’s administrative status does not independently have a significant impact on the inclusion of researchers into national and provincial talent plans, but only negatively synergies with the tutor’s academic status. Third, compared with researchers with low academic and low administrative tutor status, researchers with high academic and low administrative status and high academic and high administrative status of tutor have higher probability and faster speed to be selected into national and provincial talent plans. In addition to the factor of tutor status, the research results also discover that the research ability represented by academic papers and research titles is the prerequisite for researchers to be selected for the talent plan; Working in a high-level research institution contributes to the selection of researchers into the talent program; Researchers with overseas postdoctoral experience are more likely to be selected into the talent program; Male researchers have a greater advantage in the selection of talent program; owing to the improvement of the national science and technology system, researchers who were born in the 1980s are more likely and faster to be selected into the talent program. The policy implications of the above research conclusions are as follows: First, we should give full play to the important role of masters in the identification, selection and cultivation of outstanding scientific and technological talents, and explore the formation of a favorable mechanism for the cultivation of future masters. Second, complicated administrative affairs are not conducive to masters’ scientific research and exploration and outstanding talent cultivation, so we should build a time guarantee mechanism conducive to masters’ concentration on scientific research and talent cultivation. Third, During the process of introducing overseas outstanding scientific and technological talents, the academic network, academic influence and foresight of scientific research trend of masters should be fully brought into play, so as to achieve accurate and scientific introduction of talents. Fourth, we need to strengthen policy support for the talent selection program for female researchers to provide more opportunities for their growth. Influenced by the sample survey data, this research also has some deficiencies. First, as the samples analyzed in this research are all laureates of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, In general, this part of the scientific research group have more outstanding research ability or potential than the general scientific research personnel. Therefore, the statistical results of the influence of tutor status obtained in this research may only partially reflect the influence of tutor status in the overall situation of scientific researchers, that is to say, from the perspective of Chinese scientific researchers as a whole, the influence of tutor status on the selection of scientific researchers into national and provincial talent plans will be greater. Second, the design of tutor status measurement in this research focuses more on domestic situations, and does not consider tutor status in foreign situations. As a result, the researchers who obtained their doctoral degrees abroad and then returned to work in China failed to fill in the identity information of their tutors effectively, and the research failed to investigate this part of the scientific research community. In the meanwhile, this research only focuses on the status of doctoral tutors, and fails to study the comprehensive effects of master tutors, postdoctoral co-tutors and the network of tutors composed by all tutors. Third, the talent plan system has internal differences, and different plans have common and special standards for talent evaluation. This research only explores the effect of tutor status on the whole, but fails to conduct targeted discussion for each type of talent plan.