Department of Water Conservancy History
 
Director Xuming Tan  

Senior Engineer

      Research Department of Water Conservancy History is the only academic body in China that specializes in historical researches on water conservancy . The researches conducted cover a wide range of topics concerning historical practice of water conservancy which comes along with the long history of China . As a scientific branch , water conservancy history not only engages in researches on history and culture of common sense , but also reveals its superiority in synthetic researches of multiplicity on strategies of water management and control , variation trends of disasters , measures for flood hazard mitigation , evolution of water environment and etc.. The accomplishments in this branch add up references to modern water conservancy practice . Several accomplishments on flood hazard mitigation and history of science and technology gained national awards for scientific researches. Furthermore, we exchange research accomplishments with academic societies and institutes in Japan ,France ,Germany and so on.
 
1.Possessions of historical volumes and official data records Department of Water Conservancy History
 
          The department founded in 1936,
has 130,000 documents of official data 
records on flood disasters of Qing Dynasty ,
over 20,000 thread-bound ancient books,
and over 500 historical volumes (accounting
for 71% of the nation's total ) which specializes 
in topics of water conservancy.
          Research Method of Historical Model set bridges theoretically for the analysis onhistorical flood information with modern technologies,and bear growing point fordisciplinary promotion.
2.Discussion on the re-occurrence of the historical 
flood in 1744 in ChengDu Plain under current social 
backgrounds
3.Ancient water works --TaShan Weir  

                TaShan Weir was built in Tang Dynasty originally. As a multiple functional water works of irrigation, water supply, shipping, and environmental effect, it is in use up till now . Department of Water Conservancy History recommend it for priority of national protection . Totally ,there are five such ancient water works which have been given priority of national protection in China, the other four are DujiangWeir,JingHui Cannel, Ling Cannel and AnFengTang (a reservoir built in 605 BC)
       several accomplishments from research programs
on flood hazard mitigation,laws and regulations for water
conservancy and water environment have gained national
award ,or been awarded by National Committee on Sciences ,
China Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources 
relevantly. 
4.Recent major research accomplishments
 
 

 
Dept. of Water Conservancy History 
China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research 
Tel. +86-10-68415522-6201,6910 
Fax.+86-10-68415522-6228 
Email: tanxm@iwhr.com 
Homepage: http://www.iwhr.com/waterhistory