China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research

China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (hereinafter referred to as ¡°the institute¡± or ¡°IWHR¡±) is a non-for-profit research agency on water resources and hydropower under the administration of the Ministry of Water Resources, China. IWHR has two downtown campuses in Haidian district of Beijing, two experimental bases in Daxin... g district in the south Beijing and Yanqing County in the north, and another two departments outside Beijing, namely the Department of Water Resources for Pastoral Areas in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia and the TianjinInstitute of Hydroelectric and Power Research in Tianjin Municipality. The history of IWHR datesback to 1933 when the first Hydraulic Laboratory was established in Tianjin. In 1958 several water research agencies were merged into one, and in 1994 the present name of China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research was acquired. IWHR has become a comprehensive national research center on water science and technology, leading inresearch scope and professional excellence. The institute has two academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences, four academicians of Chinese Academy of Engineering. It has 14 research departments, fiveenterprises, one division of comprehensive business, one logistics enterprise, four national research centers and eight ministerial ones. The research areas cover hydrology and water resources, water environment and ecology, flood control, drought relief and disaster mitigation, water and soil conservation, river and lakeregulation, water conservancy in rural and pastoral areas, water resourceshistory, hydraulics, geotechnical engineering, hydraulic structures and materials, earthquake engineering, electromechanical engineering, automation, projects monitor andexamination, wind power and other renewable energy, and ICT, etc. IWHR houses the State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of Water Cycle in River Basin, the Ministerial Key Laboratory of Hydraulic and Sedimentation Science and River Training, and the Ministerial Key ...Read More