Abstract: In 2020, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and China Meteorological Administration signed an agreement to establish the Meteorological Joint Fund, which has attracted extensive attention in the atmospheric science community. In 2021, the program guide of the fund was released for the first time, and its review was completed. The NSFC received 71 applications with 69 eligible applications, and funded 14 key supporting projects, with a success rate of 20.3%. The average funding intensity was 2.646 million CNY for each funded program. The average annual funding intensity was 662,000 CNY/a, exceeding that of the conventional key programs of the Department of Earth Sciences, NSFC. To optimize the organization and management and strengthen the role of scientists in fund management, the Meteorological Joint Fund Management Committee (MJFMC) has specially established an academic guidance expert group to strengthen the top-level design of the fund. In response to the imbalance in application amounts among different host institutions and the scientific research integrity of representative works in a few applications, the MJFMC plans to strengthen policy publicity in various ways, improve application quality, attract advantageous scientific research groups, and promote the high-quality development of meteorological science and technology.