Zhejiang Institute of Water Conservancy and Hydropower is a distinctive engineering application-oriented undergraduate university. The school was born, prospered, and famous because of water. Its predecessors can be traced back to Hangzhou Hydropower School in 1953, Hangzhou Water Conservancy School in 1956, and Zhejiang Electric Power College in 1958. After Zhejiang Water Conservancy and Electric Power School, The development stage of Zhejiang Water Conservancy and Hydropower School, Zhejiang Water Conservancy and Hydropower College, and Zhejiang Water Conservancy and Hydropower College. In the 68 years since the school was established, the school has changed its name and site several times. The people of Zhejiang Water have never forgotten their original intention of serving the country with water conservancy, and they have bravely undertaken the mission of cultivating the descendants of Dayu, and have gone through an extraordinary journey. In 2004, in his congratulatory letter, Xi Jinping, the then secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, put forward instructions and expectations for our school to "build a high-quality and distinctive water conservancy and hydropower school", which pointed out the direction for the school's development. In 2013, the school was renamed Zhejiang Institute of Water Conservancy and Hydropower. In 2014, it was jointly established by the People's Government of Zhejiang Province and the Ministry of Water Resources. In 2017, it was approved as a bachelor's degree-granting unit. In 2019, it was listed as a pilot demonstration institution for application-oriented construction in Zhejiang Province. The Ministry of Water Resources has a strong supervision talent training base unit (there are only 3 universities in the country), and won the title of "National Civilized Campus", becoming the only university in the province that is both a national civilized unit and a national civilized campus. The various undertakings of the school have entered a period of vigorous development. The school is located in Hangzhou, a famous historical and cultural city and a scenic spot in the world. It covers an area of 820,600 square meters and has a total construction area of ​​288,300 square meters. The campus environment is fresh and elegant, and it is an ideal garden for seeking knowledge. The school currently has 12,288 full-time students, including 10,775 undergraduates (including 597 joint-training students), 1,489 junior college students, and 24 preparatory students; there are more than 750 faculty members, including more than 490 full-time teachers, including senior Teachers with professional titles account for 43%, and teachers with master’s degree or above account for 88%. There are shared academicians, national outstanding young people, foreign experts, provincial first-class subject leaders, provincial young and middle-aged subject leaders, provincial propaganda and cultural system “Five batches”, provincial “” 151 Talents", the provincial leading talent training program and other high-level talents and Zhejiang high-level innovation teams, and there are more than 20 national model teachers, recipients of special allowances from the State Council, Zhejiang provincial labor models, provincial teaching teachers, and provincial outstanding teachers. . The school fully implements the fundamental task of cultivating people by virtue, adheres to the application-oriented orientation of running a school, adheres to the talent training concept of "combining theory and practice, and educating people with practice", mainly promotes the SWH-CDIO-E engineering education model, and strives to cultivate an international vision and a sense of home and country. , water conservancy spirit, and practical ability of the industry backbone and leading talents, initially formed a subject professional system with engineering as the main body, water conservancy and hydropower as the feature, and multi-disciplinary coordinated development. Now there are 11 secondary colleges, 2 teaching departments and 2 research institutions, offering 35 undergraduate majors in 5 disciplines including engineering, science, management, economics and literature, including 29 undergraduate majors. It has 6 first-class discipline construction projects in Zhejiang Province, 1 national-level first-class professional construction site, 9 provincial-level first-class professional construction sites, 1 provincial-level professional construction project, 7 provincial-level specialty majors, and provincial-level experimental teaching demonstration center 3 As the first completion unit, it won 1 second prize for national teaching achievements, 5 first prizes for Zhejiang Province teaching achievements, and 9 second prizes. The school pays attention to scientific and technological innovation and services, takes the construction of water conservancy and hydropower characteristic disciplines as the main line, meets the major needs of water conservancy and environmental ecology and other fields, and actively builds high-end academic platforms and high-level research teams. Since the upgrade, 25 national-level projects and more than 100 provincial and ministerial-level projects have been approved ; 3 second prizes and 1 third prize of provincial and ministerial science and technology awards, 16 Zhejiang Provincial Water Conservancy Science and Technology Innovation Awards, and Zhejiang Provincial Social Science and Technology Awards. 2 outstanding achievement awards in scientific research; published more than 400 papers in four major retrieval journals and first-level journal papers; obtained more than 1,500 intellectual property rights authorization; undertook more than 900 horizontal service projects, with a contract payment of more than 170 million yuan. There is a National Vocational Skills Appraisal Institute, which is a designated training institution for the water conservancy industry; it has the first river (lake) long college in the country, which is an important base for serving the national water control work; since 2019, new provincial key laboratories, engineering research centers, There are 6 provincial scientific research platforms such as the new university think tank and the provincial soft scientific research base, and the provincial platform has achieved breakthroughs from 0 to 6. The school is committed to the inheritance and innovation of water culture, taking the excavation, research and inheritance of water culture as its own responsibility, and is committed to creating a new era of water conservancy spirit and Zhejiang water culture education and dissemination highland. The school is a national civilized unit. It has important platforms such as the National Water Conditions Education Base, the Demonstration Base for Inheriting the Study Style of Water Conservancy Scientists, the Zhejiang Intangible Cultural Heritage Teaching Base (Water Culture), the Zhejiang Provincial Water Culture Research and Education Center, and the Zhejiang Provincial New University Think Tank. The three major projects of water culture education, water culture dissemination and water culture research have been carried out in depth, and a system of educating people with water and culture has been constructed. It is one of the earliest universities in the country to systematically carry out water culture education. In recent years, it has undertaken more than 40 projects of various types, published more than ten books on water culture, and won more than 10 awards of various types, making contributions to the development of water conservancy in Zhejiang and the construction of a major cultural province. The school deepens international cooperation and exchanges, and actively participates in the construction of the "Belt and Road". Cooperate with the United Nations International Small Hydropower Center and other institutions to contribute China's water control wisdom and water control solutions through various forms of exchanges; cooperate with well-known universities in more than 10 countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Spain, Belarus, Malaysia, Ukraine, etc. Establish cooperative relations, explore academic exchanges and scientific research cooperation among teachers, and Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools, and strive to broaden the international vision of teachers and students. Actively introduced high-quality foreign resources, and cooperated with Belarusian State Technical University to hold an undergraduate education program for mechanical design, manufacturing and automation, which was approved by the Ministry of Education. Joint laboratories and R&D centers have been jointly built with foreign famous schools, and the Zhejiang-Belarus Joint Laboratory of Intelligent Equipment and Systems for Water Conservancy and Hydropower Safety Monitoring has been approved as a key laboratory in Zhejiang Province. Cooperate with Belarusian State Technical University to build "Zheshui Institute-Belarusian State Technical University Surface Engineering R&D Center" to help enterprises overcome technical problems. Established a joint undergraduate and master training program with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, the University of California, Riverside, the University of Southern Queensland in Australia, and the University of Zaragoza in Spain. Actively promote overseas schools and prepare for the establishment of "Dayu Silk Road College" in Malaysia. The school has always put the quality of education in a prominent position, and the cultivation of applied talents has achieved great results. Students have won a large number of national and provincial awards in various disciplines and sports competitions, ranking among the best in similar institutions. The initial employment rate of graduates has been stable at more than 95% for a long time, and has been widely recognized and widely praised by the society for its "quick start and strong stamina". A large number of industry leaders have emerged among the previous alumni, and many of them have become leaders and backbones of water conservancy system management departments or enterprises. The Ministry of Water Resources and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security awarded our school with the titles of "Outstanding Contribution Award for National Water Conservancy Industry Skilled Talent Cultivation" and "National Skilled Talent Cultivation Outstanding Contribution Award". The school is known as the cradle of Zhejiang water conservancy and hydropower talent training. Show less