Having been approved by the Ministry of Education, on the 29th of June 2000. China Three Gorges Uiversity (CTGU) was founded in Yichang City, the hydroelectric capital of the world, a city famous for its tourism attractions and home to the construction of the Three Gorges Project. CTGU is a comprehensive university, which comprises the former University of Hydraulic & Electric Engineering/Yichang and Hubei Sanxia University.
        CTGU has the largest scale and the most complete offering of subjects of all universities under the Hubei Provincial Government. CTGU consists of 20 teaching units (College of Civil & Hydroelectric Engineering, College of Mechanical & Material Engineering, College of Electrical Engineering & Information Technology, College of Economics & Management, College of Science, College of Medical Science, College of Arts, Normal College, College of Performing & Fine Arts, College of Law, College of Chemistry and Life Science, College of Foreign Languages, College of International Communication, College of Physical Education, College of Science and Technology, College of Adult Education, College of Nursing Science, College of Vocational Technology, No.1 College of Clinical Science and No.2 College of Clinical Science). The university offers 10 specialties for postgraduate students, and there are 19 more specialties for Master program, and Doctoral program which are presently being developed. There are 44 specialties for undergraduate students, which cover 8 fields, such as science, engineering, medicine, arts, management, economics, law and pedagogy. In June 2002, the specialty of Civil Engineering in the university passed the evaluation of the Specialty Committee on Civil Engineering in High Education of the Ministry of Construction; and 6 new specialties for undergraduate students and the College of Science and Technology passed the standard evaluation of the Educational Department of Hubei Province.
       Among the universities, which are not in Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei Province, CTGU is the largest comprehensive university under the Hubei Provincial Government. There are over 20,400 full-time students in the university, including three-year schooling students, undergraduates, postgraduates and overseas students; there are another 11,000 adult students studying in our university now. CTGU has 1,337 full-time teachers, including more than 575 professors and associate professors, more than 404 teachers who have a Doctoral Degree or Masters Degree, and over 30 teachers who are youth scientific and technical experts who greatly contribute and enjoy the government allowance of the State Council. There is also 1 Chutian scholar, and 3 Sanxia scholars, 24 teachers as provincial cross-century discipline forerunners and academic backbones and 94 teachers as university discipline forerunners and academic backbones. There are also 110 supervisors for postgraduate students and PhD students, 180 part-time professors, including 10 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.