The Three Gorges University is located in Yichang, a sub-central city of Hubei Province and the capital of hydropower. It is a comprehensive university jointly established by China people, Ministry of Water Resources and Hubei Provincial People's Government, and a key construction university in Hubei Province. Three Gorges University has offered full-time junior college education since 1949, full-time undergraduate education since 1978, full-time postgraduate education since 1996, and jointly trained doctoral students with brother universities such as Wuhan University since 1998. In March 2000, it was directly under the former Ministry of Water Resources and Electric Power, the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Electric Power Industry and the former State Power Company. In 20 13, he officially obtained the right to confer doctoral degrees and began to train doctoral students independently.