The China Institute of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Research is affiliated to the Ministry of Water Resources of the People's Republic of China and the State. It is a public welfare research institution engaged in scientific research on water conservancy and hydropower. The hospital headquarters consists of two courtyards, the south and the north, located in Haidian District, Beijing, as well as the Daxing Test Base and the Yanqing Test Base. Outside Beijing, there are the Pastoral Area Water Conservancy Science Research Institute in Hohhot and the Water Conservancy, Electric Power and Mechanical and Electrical Research Institute in Tianjin.
The history of our institute can be traced back to 1933. It was formerly known as China's earliest water conservancy scientific research institution - China's First Hydraulic Laboratory. After several changes, in 1958, with the approval of the Planning Commission of the State Council, several units were merged into one. After the merger, the Research Institute of Water Conservancy and Hydropower was established. In 1994, it was renamed China Research Institute of Water Conservancy and Hydropower with the approval of the State Science and Technology Commission.
After more than fifty years of development, our institute has developed into a national-level comprehensive water conservancy and hydropower scientific research and technology development center with complete subject categories and obvious talent advantages. By the end of 2011, the institute had 1,411 employees, including 1,159 at the institute's headquarters, 137 at the Pastoral Water Conservancy Research Institute, and 115 at the Tianjin Institute of Water Conservancy, Electric Power, and Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. There are 2 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 5 academicians of the Academy of Engineering, and senior There are 189 people with professional and technical positions, and 379 people with deputy senior professional and technical positions. There are currently 13 non-profit research institutes, 5 technology enterprises, 1 comprehensive business department and 1 logistics enterprise, as well as 4 national-level research centers and 6 ministerial-level research centers. The main research areas cover hydrology and water resources, water environment and ecology, flood control, drought relief and disaster reduction, soil and water conservation and river and lake governance, rural and pastoral water conservancy, water conservancy history, hydraulics, geotechnical engineering, hydraulic structures and materials, and engineering earthquake resistance. , electromechanical, automation, engineering monitoring and testing, wind energy and other renewable energy sources, information technology and other disciplines. It has a Class A qualification certificate for engineering consulting (water conservancy projects, hydropower), a Class A qualification certificate for hydrology and water resources investigation and evaluation, a Class A qualification certificate for environmental impact assessment of construction projects, a Class A qualification certificate for water resources evaluation of construction projects, and a Class A qualification certificate for soil and water conservation monitoring. Qualification certificate, Grade A qualification certificate for soil and water conservation plan preparation, Grade A qualification for water conservancy project quality inspection (geotechnical, concrete engineering, surveying), Grade A qualification certificate for water conservancy project construction supervision, Grade A certificate for engineering survey, cultural relics protection Class A qualification certificate for engineering survey and design, Class A qualification for foreign contracting projects (engineering construction, non-engineering construction), as well as engineering design, equipment manufacturing supervision, computer information system integration and other qualifications, and has passed the national metrology certification and ISO9001 quality management System certification, etc., and was selected as the Beijing Municipal Government's fixed asset investment project consulting and evaluation agency and the Ministry of Water Resources' water conservancy and hydropower construction project water storage safety appraisal and large and medium-sized sluice safety evaluation unit.
The institute has 1 international center, the Sino-US Water-Saving Irrigation Joint Research Center affiliated with the institute; 4 national-level centers, including the National Water-Saving Irrigation Beijing Engineering Technology Research Center and the National Agricultural Irrigation and Drainage Equipment Quality Supervision and Inspection Center, National Hydropower Sustainable Development Research Center and National Energy and Water Energy Efficient Utilization and Dam Safety Technology R&D Center; the six ministerial-level centers are the Flood Control, Drought Relief and Disaster Reduction Engineering Technology Center of the Ministry of Water Resources, and the Water Resources and Water Ecology Center of the Ministry of Water Resources. Engineering Technology Research Center, Soil and Water Conservation Ecological Engineering Technology Research Center of the Ministry of Water Resources, Grassland Soil and Water Conservation Ecological Research Center of the Ministry of Water Resources, Water Environment Monitoring and Evaluation Research Center of the Ministry of Water Resources, and Remote Sensing Technology Application Center of the Ministry of Water Resources. There is one national key laboratory, the National Key Laboratory of River Basin Water Cycle Simulation and Regulation, and two ministerial-level key laboratories, namely the Key Laboratory of Water Engineering Construction and Safety of the Ministry of Water Resources and the Key Laboratory of Water, Sediment Science and River Governance. There are also 18 hospital-level professional laboratories equipped with large-scale high-speed water flow decompression chambers, large-scale three-direction six-degree-of-freedom simulated seismic shaking tables, centrifugal simulation testing machines, hydraulic mechanical model universal test benches, water quality chromatography-mass spectrometry online instruments, and many other facilities. Important instruments and equipment that are among the best at home and abroad in terms of scale and performance, as well as a large number of independently developed water conservancy and hydropower computer software and large-scale high-performance parallel computing platforms, have created excellent basic scientific research conditions for scientific research.
Over the years, our institute has undertaken a large number of national-level major scientific and technological research projects and provincial and ministerial-level key scientific research projects, and has undertaken research tasks on almost all key technical issues of major water conservancy and hydropower projects in China. It has also carried out a series of scientific research work such as engineering technology consultation, evaluation and technical services. The amount of various types of scientific research contracts in the hospital has increased steadily year by year, and the research has achieved a large number of original and breakthrough scientific research results. In 2011, 318 results passed the acceptance inspection, and won 1 second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award and 22 provincial and ministerial level Science and Technology Progress Awards; published 38 monographs, 778 academic papers, and wrote 728 scientific research reports; won 45 patent authorization announcements.