Zhejiang University of Water Resources and Hydropower is the only application-oriented engineering undergraduate university in Zhejiang Province featuring water resources and hydropower, the only university jointly established by the Ministry of Water Resources and the People's Government of Zhejiang Province, and the only "double civilization" university awarded the titles of "National Civilized Unit" and "National Civilized Campus".
Schools are born of water, thrive on water, and become famous for water. Its predecessor can be traced back to Hangzhou Hydropower School in 1953, Hangzhou Water Conservancy School in Zhejiang Province in 1956 and Zhejiang Electric Power College in 1958. It has experienced the development stages of Zhejiang Water Conservancy and Electric Power School, Zhejiang Water Conservancy and Hydropower School, Zhejiang Water Conservancy and Hydropower College and Zhejiang Water Conservancy and Hydropower College. Generation after generation, the people of Shui Yuan have been handed down from generation to generation, which has trained a large number of applied talents for the development of local economy and water conservancy.
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The school has full-time students 13827, including undergraduates 12077, junior college students 1750, preparatory students and international students. There are 875 faculty members and 595 full-time teachers, of which 37% are teachers with senior titles and 78% are teachers with master's degree or above.
He has successively shared with academicians, national outstanding youth, foreign experts, national model teachers, winners of special allowances from the State Council, five groups of talents in the provincial propaganda and cultural system, talents in the special support program for high-level talents in Zhejiang Province, "15 1 talents" in Zhejiang Province, model workers in Zhejiang Province, provincial teaching masters, provincial outstanding teachers, provincial first-class academic leaders, and young academic leaders in provincial universities.
The school is committed to the inheritance and innovation of water culture, insists on digging, researching and inheriting water culture as its own responsibility, and strives to create a highland for education and dissemination of water conservancy spirit in the new era and Zhejiang water culture. It has a national-level water education base, a demonstration base for inheriting the style of study of water conservancy scientists, a teaching base for inheriting intangible cultural heritage (water culture) in Zhejiang Province, and a water culture research and education center in Zhejiang Province.
The think tanks of newly-built universities in Zhejiang Province and other important platforms have carried out three major projects of water culture education, water culture dissemination and water culture research, and built a characteristic education system of "educating people with water and educating people with culture", which is one of the universities that systematically carry out water culture education in China.