China Three Gorges University

Approved by the Ministry of Education, China Three Gorges University was established on May 25, 2000 by merging the former Wuhan University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power (Yichang) and the former Hubei Three Gorges University. The predecessor of the former Wuhan University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power (Yichang) was the Gezhouba Institute of Hydropower Engineering established in 1978, which was successively affiliated to the Ministry of Water Resources and Electric Power, the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Electric Power Industry, and the State Power Corporation. In 1996, it merged with the former Wuhan University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power to form a new university The Wuhan University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power has become an important part of the "211 Project" construction of universities. The former Hubei Three Gorges University was formed in 1996 by the merger of the former Yichang Normal College, Yichang Medical College, and Yichang Vocational University. The history of the school can be traced back to 1923. It started undergraduate education in 1978 and was one of the first batch of national bachelor’s degree conferring units. It began to organize postgraduate education in 1996, and began to train doctoral students in 1998. The school recruits students from 31 provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government and more than 60 countries (regions), and enters a comprehensive enrollment nationwide. The school has the right to confer doctoral degrees, has the qualifications to recommend outstanding undergraduates to study for postgraduates without examination, has the qualifications to enroll minority preparatory students, international students in China, Chinese government scholarship students (CSC), undergraduate clinical medicine majors (taught in English) overseas students in China, and Qualifications for recruiting students from Hong Kong and Taiwan without examination. The school is a university jointly established by the Ministry of Water Resources and the Hubei Provincial People's Government, and is a university in the "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program" of the Ministry of Education. In 2018, the school was listed by the Provincial People's Government as a "domestic first-class university construction university", and three disciplines including hydraulic engineering, civil engineering, and electrical engineering were listed as "domestic first-class discipline construction disciplines". At present, China Three Gorges University has developed into a comprehensive university with obvious characteristics and advantages of water conservancy and electric power, strong comprehensive education strength, high social reputation and great development potential.