The diverse applications of polymers in all aspects evoke research of macromolecules with a characteristic of multidiscipline. The notable achievements have been obtained in multidiscipline intersection as reveled by the progress introduced in this review. Chinese polymer scientists contributed core paper in those top fields in polymer chemistry or material science frontiers report by Clarivate Analytics. Several National Scientific Awards granted to polymer scientists recently. Numerous transformations of technological achievements to polymer industry have been successfully preceded in last year. Finally

the changes in framework of NSFC funding programs related to polymer as well as issues in application in 2018 have been introduced briefly.