On the 27th, the Science and Technology Strategic Consulting Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (hereinafter referred to as the "Academy of Strategic Consulting"), the Literature and Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Kerui Weian jointly released the 2022 Research Frontier report and the 2022 Research Frontier Heat Index report to the world. The 2022 Research Frontiers report is based on 12610 research frontiers in the ESI database, Select 110 hot frontiers and 55 emerging frontiers that will be more active or rapidly developing in 11 academic fields (agricultural science, botany and zoology, ecology and environmental science, earth science, clinical medicine, biological science, chemistry and material science, physics, astronomy and astrophysics, mathematics, information science, economics, psychology and other social sciences) of natural science and social sciences in 2022, It objectively reflects the development trend of related disciplines. Pan Jiaofeng, president of the Strategic Advisory Institute, analyzed that the 2022 Research Frontier reflects the eight trends of current scientific research as a whole: first, AI enables various disciplines and opens up new paradigms for scientific research; Second, the major challenges brought by COVID-19 have become a powerful driving force for scientific research in many disciplines; Third, major breakthroughs in earth science are still the main scientific and technological support to ensure "energy security" for a period of time; Fourth, the solution of "food security" and "health problems" requires an open big scientific program in "basic research of genome technology"; Fifth, the exploration of the macro universe and the livable earth reveals the overall unified picture of the earth system; Sixthly, deep space exploration and micro regulation constantly expand the boundary of material science knowledge system; Seventh, mathematical research breaks the century's problems and the bottleneck of mathematical logic in various disciplines; Eighth, complex frontier issues that challenge the limits of human cognition are increasingly breaking the boundaries of natural science, engineering science and social science research. On the basis of the 2022 Research Frontier, the 2022 Research Frontier Heat Index evaluates the performance of China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan in the above research frontiers. Judging from the research frontier heat index of the overall level of 11 university disciplines, the United States is still the most active, China continues to be the second most active, and China and the United States are both strong; Britain and Germany ranked third and fourth respectively, ranking second; Although France ranks fifth, it is still far behind the top four. According to the specific heat index score in the scientific field, China ranks first in the fields of agricultural science, botany and zoology, ecology and environmental science, chemistry and materials science, and physics. Clinical medicine, astronomy and astrophysics are still the weak areas in China. (Outlook New Times)