NCWU(North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power), accounting for 2,336 mus,  Huayuan Campus(Address: No.36,Beihuan Road , Zhengzhou, Henan Province) and Longzihu Campus(Address: No.136, East Jinshui Road, Zhengzhou, Henan Province).NCWU, was established by Henan government and the Ministry of Water Resources, which is mainly managed and supported by Henan Province. NCWU is also the led Chinese university in BRICS NU.

NCWU origins from the Water Resources College of the Ministry Water Resources of Central People’s Government, which was established in Beijing, 1951, and changed its name as Beijing Water Resources College of the Ministry of Water Resources in 1954.Then Beijing Hydroelectric Power School with Beijing College of Water Resources and Electric Power Correspondence were incorporated in 1958, named after Beijing Water Resources and Electric Power College.In 1969, the college was relocated in Yuecheng Reservoir, Cixian County, Hebei Province and changed its name to Hebei College of Water Resources and Electric Power in 1971. The college was relocated in Handan, Heibei province in 1977, and had changed its name to North China College of Water Resources and Electric Power in 1978. The college was relocated to Zhengzhou City, Henan Province in 1990. The college was sponsored by the Ministry of Water Resources, and then transferred to Henan provincial government in 2000. In 2009, the Ministry of Water Resources and Henan provincial government had signed the strategy agreement of codevelopment of the North China College of Water Resources and Electric Power. In 2013, the school was renamed as North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power.

Water stands the very reason that NCWU has emerged, survived and then thrived, along with People’s Republic of China’s development of water resources and electric power. NCWU has relocated for three times, and has gone through an striving experience of transference fromBeijing, Hebei to finally Henan province, NCWU keeps the spirit of unremitting persistence and has supported the regional socio-economic development for the society as well as devote dedication towards the water resources and electric power nationwide ever since. In the course of schooling experience, the university has grown a schooling concept and spirit, that is, “Foundation on student cultivation and adhesion to practical use” and “Attached to water resources and unremitting self-improvement”.

NCWU encompasses 20 teaching units, namely, School of Water Conservancy, School of Electric Power,etc. And it encompasses 31 research institutions, such as the Yellow River Academy of Sciences, Water Culture Research Center, etc. The Water Resources Training Center and Office of the Ministry of Water Resources of RTVU Open Education were established in NCWU. Being the first national master’s degreegranting unit, a doctoral granting unit, NCWU is elected as the Ministry of Education of the second batch of “Excellence Engineer Education Program” among other colleges and universities. In 2012, the school was selected the Midwestern university infrastructure project in colleges and universities. In 2016, it was approved the Ministry of Water Resources “National Regimen Education Base”. NCWU keeps a foothold in Henan province, admitting students from the whole country, continues to consolidate and improve the basic status of undergraduate education, positively develops the postgraduate education, and vigorously expands international cooperation based on the opportunity of the countr “Double First Class Universities” construction and development of classification of colleges and provides strong human resources and intellectual support for regional economic and social development and for the national water conservancy and electric power industry.

Reasonable layout of disciplines and majors. After 66 years’ construction and development, NCWU has become a multidisciplinary comprehensive public university characterized by water resources and engineering as the backbone programs. There are 64 full-time undergraduate programs, including 9 national and provincial excellence program construction disciplines, 15 national and provincial comprehensive reform pilot disciplines, and 17 national and provincial outstanding disciplines with distinguishing feature. NCWU has 13 provincial level key disciplines, the authority to confer doctoral degrees in 3 primary disciplines, the authority to confer doctoral degrees in 19 secondary disciplines, and also has the authority to confer master’s degrees in 13 primary disciplines, the authority to confer master’s degrees in 58 secondary disciplines, 7 categories of professional master’s degree, and 15 master’s degree authorization points.

Remarkable educational achievements. The school enrolls students nationwide in addition to Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. It currently has a total number of more than 31000 full time undergraduate and postgraduate students . Since its establishment, the university has cultivated nearly 200,000 advanced professional engineering and management talents, nearly 20 alumni including the ministries of China’s national ministries, generals of Chinese army and provincial leaders , the National Moral Model Winner Wu Xinfen; and Meng Ruipeng, who got more than 10 honorary titles, such as the Fifth National Moral Model Nomination Award, the National Outstanding College Student Award, the National Excellent Communist Youth League Member Award, etc.; Yugo Award Winner Liu Cixin, and An Shaohua , who set up “China Blue Sky Rescue Team” and other outstanding alumni. They manifest NCWU’s talent cultivation spirit, that is “Humble, Hard-working, Persistent, Practical and Excel.”

Teacher resources continue to enrich. In order to implement the strategy of talent strengthening university and enriching faculty staffmembers, NCWU, in particular, honorably has academicians from CAE (China’s Academy of Engineering) to be our bilateral contractual professors: Wang Fuming, Wang Hao, Zhou Fengjun, Wang Guangqian, Xia Jun and so forth. There are a number of 2,060 faculties, among which 1,506 are lecturers and tutors, 210 are senior professors, and 673 lecturers are with doctoral degrees. 3 teachers in NCWU are nominated in National Key Talents Project, and there’s 1 Yangtze Scholar, 1 in Thousand Talents Plan. There are 3 national model teachers. And 38 provincial experts, provincial technological leaders, provincial well-known teachers and outstanding lecturers in NCWU.

Impressive Scientific research. Ever since the China’s 12th Five Year Plan, NCWU has hosted or participated 1,800 research projects of various academic categories with a scientific research fund of nearly 600 million RMB. It has published 5,200 papers on the core academicjournals, 3,200 of which have been included in SCI, SSCI, CSSCI, and EI as their indexes. Moreover, the university has published more than 400 academic books and won 600 scientific awards of various levels and sorts. Among these prizes, 5 of them are National Science Progress Award, over 140 are Provincial Scientific Award. NCWU stands the top rankings of Henan higher education involving prizes one’s ever triumphed.

Remarkable achievements in social service. NCWU has made remarkable achievements in social service and enjoys renowned reputation and influence in the domestic industry. NCWU has trained more than 30,000 professional and technical talents,training and supervision staff of more than 60,000 people for the water conservancy, power industry and local economic construction. The university ownedenterprises, North China Water Conservancy and Hydropower Supervision Co. Ltd.,Henan, has won Science and Technology Progress Award and the National Quality Engineering Award for Dongjiang Shenzhen Water Supply Project in Guangdong province ;The Survey Design and Research Company who is responsible for the design of membrane structure of the Convention and Exhibition Center in Hainan,Sanya, has earned high respect from both domestic and foreign counterparts; The enterprize has undertaken more than 100 research and development projects, including “Silo Cave” which was successfully selected to be the national intangible cultural heritage project. During the year of 2008when a magnitude of 8.0 earthquake hit Wenchuan, NCWU sent 10 experts to complete the reinforcement relief line of small and medium reservoirs with high quality, and has become one of the sample reconstruction projects in Jiangyou city ever since.

Broad prospect of international cooperation. NCWU has a long history of international cooperation. NCWU has begun to recruit overseas students since 1958, and carried out assistance to Vietnam University of Water Resources and Electric Power. In recent years, NCWU paid more attention to international cooperation and communication, implemented an open minded schooling strategy, and constantly improved the qualityof education and internationalization. Moreover, NCWU has signed cooperative agreements and implemented Chinese foreign cooperation in running schools with Swinburne University of Technology, University Nice Sophia Antipolis, University of Teesside, Keimyung University, Ural Federal University and the other world famous universities. NCWU has actively integrated itself into the Higher Education Communication and Cooperation System of BRICS, and become the leading university in BRICS NU on the field of water resources and pollution control and energy. NCWU has constructed “BRICS NU · Water Engineering and Energy Research Center” with Ural Federal University, has constructed “China and Russia High Speed Railway Research Center” with St. Petersburg National Chiao Tung University, and has also constructed “Logistics Engineering Research Center” with Korea University of Inhok.

Colorful campus culture. NCWU pays a great attention to students’ art education and has been selected as Henan Provincial A Class University of Art Education for four consecutive sessions, the Excellent Organized Unit of College Students’ Science and Technology Festival for nine consecutive sessions , the Advanced Unit of the National Art Education in 2010 , the Advanced Unit of Summer Vacation Ssocial Practicing Activities for consecutive 20 years, the Award of the 8^th  Excellent Organization of Chinese volunteer in 2010, the First Rank of ExcellentCampus’ Cultural Construction’s for two consecutive sessions and the Second Rank in 2012, and the May Fourth Flag Youth League Committee in 2015 .In 2016 , 2 of the youth league branches won the National Active League Branch, and college’s league committee won the Excellent Organized Unit in the social practicing activity called “Three Time in Village in the Screen “sponsored by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League.

Persistently promoted social reputation. NCWU campus has been awarded successively as “Advanced Collective of Water Conservancy Science and Technology”, “The Outstanding Units for National Higher Education Undergraduate Teaching Work Level”, ”National Education Advanced Unit”, “Advanced Collective of Employment of College Graduates Nationwide”, “National Education System Discipline Inspection and Surveillance Advanced Units”. For three consecutive times, NCWU has been regarded as” Provincial Civilized Unit” and also has been awarded as “The Unit of Provincial Civilization”. In recent years, we also have the honor to get these designations, like “The Most Employable 10 Henan Education Card”, “The Excellent Organization College Award from The Best Organization for College Students Employment”, “The National Graduate Employment 50 Typical Experienced Universities”. According to the report, “the Employment, Early Warning and Key Industry Talent Supply for College Graduates in Henan Province”, which was released in 2013 at the third party authoritative data organization.” NCWU was in the first place among the colleges and universities which have employment competitiveness in Henan Province. In 2014, according to the survey from NBS (National Bureau of Statistics), NCWU campus ranks the top in the test of employer’s assessment of graduate satisfaction in 71 undergraduate colleges and universities participating in the survey. In 2015, NCWU was identified as “The First Batch of University Student Demonstration Bases in Henan Province”, and was regarded as “The Innovative Entrepreneurship Demonstration Base in Henan Province”. In 2016, our campus was awarded as “The Top 10 Most Competitive Universities” and “The Most Influential Model Universities”.

In terms of the prospects of future, NCWU will continue to hold highly the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and comprehensively implements the spirit of the 18th CPC National Congress and the Third Plenary Session of the Eighteenth Central Committee and takes Marxism Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thought of Three Represents and Scientific development concept as its guide to action. Deeply carrying out the spirit of the Important Speech which released by the General Secretary Xi Jinping. Comprehensively implementing the party’s education policy to become regional economic and social development and national water conservancy and hydropower industry demand oriented and comprehensive reform of higher education as the driving force and high moral values and cultivate person as a fundamental task. To strengthen the education of socialist core values, NCWU will focus on the strategies of “quality relied university, talent strengthened university, feature thriving university, and openness prospered university”. Continuously improve the quality of talent cultivation, scientific research level, social service ability, cultural heritage and innovation ability, and international communication level. Making every effort to build a world’s class university that highlights the advantages of water resources and electric power, strong science foundation and multidisciplinary coordinated development. Furthermore, NCWU will make a greater contribution to regional economic and social development and national water conservancy and hydropower industry.