Abstract:National Social Science Fund projects serve as an important symbol to measure the level of scientific research capabilities in the field of humanities and social sciences in China. Studying the evolution of the spatiotemporal pattern of project distribution is conducive to revealing the inherent laws, differences and trends in the development of China's humanities and social sciences. Based on the National Social Science Fund project data from 2014 to 2023, this paper uses methods such as global spatial autocorrelation , Local Indicators of Spatial Association, and Getis-Ord index analysis to explore the evolution characteristics of the spatiotemporal pattern of China's humanities and social sciences research levels in the past 10 years. The results show that: (1) From the overall distribution characteristics, the spatial layout of the level of humanities and social sciences research in China is significantly different, and there is obvious spatial autocorrelation. That is, the level of humanities and social sciences research in the eastern provinces is higher, while the level of humanities and social sciences research in the central and western provinces is relatively low. (2) From the perspective of local differences, there are three types of agglomeration in the level of humanities and social sciences research in China: "high-high type", "high-low type" and "low-high type". Among them, six provinces in the east and central regions, such as Hubei and Shandong, are in the "high-high type" agglomeration model, four provinces, including Hebei, Tianjin, Anhui and Jiangxi, are in the "low-high type" agglomeration model, and Guangdong has always been in the "high-low type" agglomeration model. (3) From the perspective of internal spatial pattern, the level of humanities and social sciences research in Shanghai and Beijing has long been in the hotspot area, while coastal provinces such as Jiangsu and Zhejiang are mainly concentrated in the sub-hotspot area, while central and western provinces such as Hubei and Chongqing are mainly distributed in the sub-cold or cold area. Finally, it is proposed that "the research level of humanities and social sciences in the eastern region should be further improved, the investment and optimal allocation of scientific research resources in the central and western regions should be increased, and the universities and research institutes in the eastern, central and western regions should be encouraged to set up a mechanism of cooperation and counterpart support, so as to gradually narrow the differences in academic resources between the eastern, central and western regions, enhance the scientific research capacity of the central and western regions, and push forward the overall improvement of the level of research in humanities and social sciences in China!"