Chongqing Three Gorges Water Conservancy and Electric Power School was founded in 1978. Is a public full-time national key vocational and technical school, originally Wanxian Water Conservancy and Electric Power School in Sichuan Province. The east campus of the school is located in the main city of Wanzhou, the central city of the Three Gorges reservoir area of the Yangtze River, and is backed by Taibai Park, a scenic spot of the Three Gorges. The west area is located at the north bridge head of Wanzhou Yangtze River Bridge. The school is surrounded by mountains and rivers, with beautiful scenery, quiet environment and convenient transportation. It is an ideal place to study and live.

The school covers an area of 168 mu, with more than 3,900 students and 246 faculty members, including full-time teachers 177, 53 senior lecturers, 48 engineers and 62 double-qualified teachers. There is a special library building, with a collection of books 1.4 million volumes and more than 400 kinds of newspapers and magazines. The school invested more than 40 million yuan to improve the campus environment and improve the experimental equipment. There are 38 experimental training rooms, including PLC, electric operation simulation center, electrician, electric trailer, electronics, physics, material strength, electrician implementation, audio-visual technology, measurement, electric welding, mold manufacturing, metalworking, computer hardware maintenance and voice, running more than 500 personal computers, multimedia studios 1 room, 3 multimedia classrooms and 23 practice training bases. In recent years, the school has continuously broadened the ways of running schools, and cooperated with large enterprises such as Tianjin Electric Power Construction Company, Three Gorges Water Conservancy Co., Ltd., Chongqing Suote Group, Baoligen Precision Mould Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Taiwan Province Lixinjie (Dongguan) Precision Mould Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Guanghui Electric Appliance Industry Co., Ltd. and Beijing Holiland Investment Management Co., Ltd. to cultivate orders. It has successively established Wanzhou Teaching Point of Chongqing Institute of Technology, Correspondence Station of Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electric Power, Chongqing Correspondence Station of North China University of Hydraulic and Electric Power, and Adult Education Center of Three Gorges Reservoir Area of North China University of Hydraulic and Electric Power. Since its establishment, tens of thousands of outstanding college graduates have moved from here to more than 20 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country, and the school has won the reputation of "Whampoa Military Academy" for hydropower system in the reservoir area.