关键词: 政府资助, 国家科技计划, 中欧科技合作, 对外开放, 国际合作, Government Research Funding, National S&T Program, China-EU Collaboration, Opening up, International Collaboration

Abstract: Focusing on Chinese government agencies and S&T programs’ research funding on international collaborations, this study analyzed the China-EU co-authored papers published in 2008-2012 in Science Citation Index Expanded in bibliometrics, such as the funding amounts, countries, fields, co-funding relations and the proportion of higher-impact papers. Then it was found that Chinese government made important contributions to the China-EU collaboration while more than a half of total papers were sponsored by the Chinese government; the papers sponsored by China’s National-level S&T Programs (CNSTP) were multidisciplinary; and the Chinese scientists funded by CNSTP were more active than those funded by the funding agencies of EU. However, there are still some problems related to Chinese research funding: the Chinese government should further enhance the quality of research outputs, improve the funding efficiency, and support more multilateral cooperation. At last, suggestions were offered to expand the opening up of CNSTP to the EU.