Abstract: Based on strategy report for 2016--2020 of the department of mathematics and physics of NSFC and the series of research reports on the development of the disciplines-mechanics 2016--2015: China and World, the authors introduce funding of the National Natural Science Foundation in the discipline of mechanics in brief. The article analyzes the development of the discipline of mechanics through studying the number of papers, the number of citations and top 1% papers, the citation rate of papers, the frequency of citations, the impact of citations on papers, the output rate of top 1% high citation papers, international cooperation and autonomy research from 2006 to 2015, and puts forward opinions and advices on the future development of mechanics in last.