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About IWHR

China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR), founded in 1958 and with a history that can be traced back to the establishment of the first Hydraulic Laboratory in Tianjin in 1933, is the largest comprehensive national research institute in the field of water resources and hydroelectric power in China.

Headquartered in Beijing with two campuses and two large experimental bases, IWHR also has another two departments in Hohhot and Tianjin. IWHR currently has over 1,300 staff members (including one academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences, four academicians of Chinese Academy of Engineering, and more than 900 senior or associate senior engineers), 13 research departments and 32 laboratories, covering a total land area of 480,000 square meters.

Over the years, IWHR has completed many research and consultancy tasks for hundreds of key projects, covering wide research fields in water resources management for nationwide and large river basins, water environment protection, flood control and drought relief, river regulation and inter-basin water transfer, sedimentation in rivers and reservoirs, structural optimization, earthquake resistant analysis, complex foundations treatment, hydro-electric equipment testing and checking, power plant automation, safety monitoring, construction materials design and control, new technology for concrete faced rock-fill dam and roller compacted concrete dams, hydro-turbine sets and rehabilitations, cooling water study, fly ash deposit, etc.

IWHR is hosting a number of secretariats of international and national academic associations, including the UNESCO International Research and Training Center on Erosion and Sedimentation (IRTCES), the World Association for Sedimentation and Erosion Research (WASER), the World Association of Soil and Water Conservation (WASWAC), the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), the International Conference on Flood Management (ICFM), the Chinese National Committee on Large Dams (CHINCOLD), the Chinese National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (CNCID), the Global Water Partnership (GWP) China, the China Office of International Hydropower Association (IHA), and the China River Restoration Network (CRRN).

For more information about IWHR, please visit en.iwhr.cn.