China Three Gorges University is located in Yichang City, Hubei Province. With the approval of the Ministry of Education, it was formed on May 25th, 2000 by the merger of the former Wuhan University of Water Resources and Electric Power (Yichang) and the former Hubei Three Gorges College. Co-built by the Ministry of Water Resources and Hubei Province, it was selected as the second batch of "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan" of the Ministry of Education, the second phase of basic capacity building of universities in the central and western regions, and the construction of "domestic first-class universities" in Hubei Province.