Nanchang Institute of Technology Technology) is a water conservancy Characteristic College jointly built by Jiangxi Provincial People's government and the Ministry of water resources of the people's Republic of China, which focuses on engineering and coordinated development of literature, economics, science, agronomy, management, art and other disciplines. In September 2011, it was approved as the "excellent engineer education and training plan" College; in 2013, it was approved as the pilot college of directional training of directly recruited non commissioned officers; In October 2014, it was approved as the first batch of "excellent agriculture and forestry talents education and training plan" universities.The predecessor of Nanchang Institute of engineering is Jiangxi Institute of water conservancy and electric power, which was founded in 1958. Since then, it has experienced the Junior College Department of Jiangxi water conservancy and Electric Power College, water conservancy branch of Jiangxi Institute of technology, Jiangxi Water Conservancy College, Nanchang water conservancy and Electric Power College, Nanchang water conservancy and Electric Power College and Nanchang water conservancy and Electric Power College. In 2004, it was upgraded to an undergraduate college and renamed Nanchang Institute of engineering. In 2005, it was approved as a bachelor degree awarding college In 2011, it was approved as a pilot University for postgraduate training of master's degree.As of September 2019, the university has two campuses, Yaohu and pengjiaqiao, covering an area of 2046.9 mu, with a building area of more than 650000 square meters. In addition, it has a science and education base with an area of 1000 mu in Jinxi County, with 15 Teaching Colleges (departments), 57 undergraduate majors, more than 1500 teaching staff, more than 17000 full-time students, including more than 300 graduate students and 21 international students.