This article analyzes the talent projects in environmental chemistry of National Natural Science Foundation of China （NSFC） during 2018—2023 in the aspects of the application， the acceptance， the review， the funding， and the research team of Distinguished Young Scholar Fund and Excellent Young Scholar Fund. In general， talent projects in environment chemistry have made a breakthrough and the funding amounts increased obviously， especially in the areas of atmosphere， water， radiochemistry and toxicology， whereas the areas of theoretical environmental chemistry， the soil pollution and remediation chemistry， solid waste pollution and disposal chemistry， the biosafety and the protective chemistry need to be strengthened and the talent echelon in these areas need to be cultivated increasingly. The results will be helpful for talents cultivation in the disciplinary development of environmental chemistry.