The State Key Laboratory of Water Resources Engineering and Management (hereinafter referred to as SKL) was formally approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China in March 2023. The SKL was built by Wuhan University and co-built by CISPDR (Changjiang Institute of Survey, Planning, Design and Research) Corporation, on the foundation of the previous State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science established in 2003 and the University’s close and long-established partnership with CISPDR Corporation. The research focus of the SKL will be on the application of water engineering and management theories and theologies for serving the national strategies of the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the ecological conservation and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin and so on.

Research at the SKL spans across the major aspects of water resources, from hydrology, hydraulic, agriculture water resources, hydropower engineering, to water resources management. Our areas of particular interest include the identification of water resources change, development of advanced constructing technology for water resources storage and transport projects, development of intelligent technology for the integrated water resources management and so on. There are visiting scholars’ funds in above research fields that can be applied from all over the world.

Professor Dianqing Li is currently the director of the SKL. Professor Jun Xia is an Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, he is also a foreign member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Professor Xinqiang Niu and Chuangbing Zhou are Academicians of Chinese Academy of Engineering. Professor Shenglian Guo is a foreign member of The Norwegian Academy of Engineering. And total 156 faculties work in the SKL.

The SKL has conducted the nonlinear theory of runoff formation and transformation, and over thousand water research projects of planning and designing including the Three Gorges Project and the middle Route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project; key technologies for efficient utilization and operation of flood resources in reservoir groups. It has won 31 national science and technology awards, including 11 second prizes hosted and one special prize participated.

（Updated in Dec.2023）