Mainly depends on whether the competent unit of the magazine is a provincial unit or a national unit. If it is the director of a provincial unit, the magazine is provincial, and the director of a national unit is national.

Practice and Understanding of Mathematics is an applied mathematics journal sponsored by China Academy of Sciences and Institute of Mathematics and System Science of China Academy of Sciences. Main columns: mathematical modeling, management science, engineering mathematics, problem research, knowledge and progress, subject introduction, method introduction, advanced mathematics garden, history of mathematics, research briefing, books and periodicals, comments and newsletters.

Therefore, this magazine is a national periodical.