The Three Gorges University is located in Yichang City, Hubei Province. With the approval of the Ministry of Education, it was formed by the merger of the former Wuhan University of Water Resources and Electric Power (Yichang) and the former Hubei Three Gorges College on May 25th, 2000. Co-built by the Ministry of Water Resources and Hubei Province, it was selected as the second batch of "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan" of the Ministry of Education, the second phase project of basic capacity building in central and western universities, and the "domestic first-class university" of Hubei Province.
The former Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electric Power (Yichang) was formerly known as Gezhouba Hydropower Engineering College, which was established in 1978. It is subordinate to the Ministry of Water Resources and Electric Power, the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Electric Power Industry and the State Power Company. 1996 merged with the former Wuhan University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power to form a new Wuhan University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power, which became an important part of "Project 2 1 1" to build a university. The former Hubei Three Gorges College was formed by the merger of Yichang Normal College, Yichang Medical College and Yichang Vocational College on 1996.
In June 2022, the official website of the school showed that the school covers an area of more than 3,000 mu, with a total construction area of 6,543,800+4,000 square meters. The total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment is 806 million yuan, and there are more than 2.95 million paper books in the library. There are 22 colleges and 80 undergraduate majors; There are 4 first-class doctoral programs, 1 professional doctoral program, 27 first-class master programs and 22 master degree categories; Full-time teachers 1686, full-time undergraduates 23964, doctoral and master students 7552.
Scientific research achievements of Three Gorges University
By the end of 20 17 and 12, the school had undertaken more than 5,400 scientific research projects at all levels, including more than 630 national key R&D projects, major national science and technology projects, key and general national natural science foundation projects, key and general national social science foundation projects and national soft science research plan projects, with an average annual research funding of more than 200 million yuan. 1 10 Many scientific research achievements have won awards at or above the provincial and ministerial levels.
Among them, won the second prize of national scientific and technological progress 6; Won the provincial and ministerial first prize 15, 35 second prizes and 48 third prizes; Won 4 first prizes, 7 second prizes and 34 third prizes of provincial and ministerial social science awards; Nearly 530 invention patents were authorized.
More than 600 academic monographs, translations and teaching materials have been published publicly, and nearly 3,000 academic papers have been published annually, of which more than 950 papers have been included in the three major searches and reprinted by the National People's Congress. 1000 More than one technological development achievement has been applied to the water conservancy and electric power industry and places.