Neither. According to official website, Hubei Education Bureau. Located in Yichang City, Hubei Province, China, the Three Gorges University was formed in 2000 by the merger of the former Wuhan University of Water Resources and Electric Power (Yichang) and the former Hubei Three Gorges College. The school is a university jointly established by the Ministry of Water Resources and Hubei Province, and was selected as the second batch of outstanding engineer education and training plan of the Ministry of Education, the basic capacity building project of central and western universities (Phase II) and the first-class university in Hubei Province. Therefore, it is neither 2 1 1 nor bi-class.