根据省委省政府改革部署，原江西省水利科学研究院（成立于1954年）、原江西省水土保持科学研究院（成立于1956年）合并，成立江西省水利科学院，并于2020年12月27日正式挂牌。江西省水利科学院隶属于江西省水利厅，是集水利水电与水土保持科学研究、技术服务和成果推广为一体的公益性省级科研机构。江西省水资源管理中心、江西省大坝安全管理中心为院同设机构。
单位职能：主要承担重大水问题的科学研究、水利水电与水土保持研究和技术服务，水利相关政策、技术规范和标准的研究与评估，水利前期规划和立项论证、技术方案及行业技术管理等支撑服务，开展水土保持监测、水利科技成果转化推广及科普教育等。
核定内设机构12个：综合办公室、科研技术科、科技服务科、财务审计科、科研基地管理科、水利规划与发展研究所、水资源与水生态环境研究所、防灾减灾与水工程安全研究所、建材与岩土研究所、智慧水利研究所、农村水利研究所、水土保持研究所。
院本部（不含下属2个公司）现有职工368人，其中专业技术人员297人。硕士及以上学历243人，占总人数的62.8%，其中博士研究生50人（含在读博士9人）、硕士研究生193人；正高34人、副高110人、工程师113人。享受国务院特殊津贴2人、全国创新争先奖1人、中国科协青年人才托举工程人选1人、“双千计划”人选2人、江西省百千万人才工程人选10人、“双高工程”人选3人、省主要学科学术和技术带头人2人、省赣鄱俊才支持计划2人。
我院拥有鄱阳湖模型试验研究基地（位于共青城市，占地500亩）、江西水土保持生态科技园（位于德安县，占地1200亩）、农村水利科研示范基地（位于南丰县，占地580亩）三个大型科研基地。拥有水利部鄱阳湖水资源水生态环境研究中心、水旱灾害防御江西省重点实验室、流域水土保持江西省重点实验室、江西省水工安全工程技术研究中心、博士后科研工作站、鄱阳湖流域生态水利技术创新中心等六个科研平台。拥有水土保持和水资源保护与利用省级优势科技创新团队。
“十三五”以来，我院累计获批立项科研项目690余项，在国家重点研发项目、国家自然科学基金项目、江西省“揭榜挂帅”重大科技专项、国家科技奖后备培育计划项目、江西省重点研发项目、水利部行业科研专项等国家级、省部级科研项目上实现量质双高。累计获得国家级、省部级、地厅级等各级各类科技奖励125项，其中，获得省科技进步一等奖4项、二等奖8项、三等奖6项，大禹水利科学技术奖二等奖2项、三等奖7项、科普奖1项，中国水利工程优质（大禹）奖1项，中国水土保持学会优秀设计奖一等奖2项、二等奖3项、三等奖1项、科学技术奖三等奖6项，长江科学技术奖二等奖4项、科普奖1项，赣鄱水利科技奖66项。发表期刊论文1240余篇（其中SCI 138篇、EI 66篇、中文核心369篇）；获国家发明专利92项、实用新型专利211项、外观设计专利21项；出版物36部；制订修订标准规范51项。
我院拥有大坝安全鉴定、水库蓄水安全鉴定、水闸安全鉴定、岩土工程类检测、混凝土工程类检测、量测类检测、金属结构类检测、机械电气类检测、水资源论证、水文水资源调查评价10项甲级资质；土地规划、土地整治工程规划设计、工程咨询、工程设计水利行业河道整治专业、工程设计水利行业5项乙级资质。生产建设项目水土保持方案编制单位水平评价证书（五星），生产建设项目水土保持监测单位水平评价证书（五星）；江西省国土整治与修复工程规划设计机构信用等级（AAA），江西省土地规划机构信用等级（AAA）。在水旱灾害防御、水利工程规划设计、物理模型试验、工程质量与建材检测、水工程安全监测与评价、水资源综合调控与管理、水生态环境保护与综合治理、农村水利、智慧水利、水土流失防治、土地整治规划设计等方面为行业及社会提供技术服务，得到各方的充分肯定。
我院始终坚持党建引领发展、服务发展，在党建引领下，科技创新、支撑服务、人才建设、管理改革“四轮”驱动，协同发力，在接续奋进中开启水利科技事业高质量跨越式发展新征程；注重创新文化建设，挖掘和传承本院深厚的历史文化底蕴，形成了具有江西水利科技特色的创新文化，成为了我院改革创新、赶超发展、争创一流的精神灯塔。争先创优成效显著，荣获第六届全国文明单位、全国水利文明单位、全国工人先锋号、全国抗洪先进单位、全国青年文明号、全国水利系统先进集体、全国水利科技工作先进集体、全国“巾帼文明岗”、全国水土保持工作先进集体、国家水情教育基地、全国科普教育基地、江西省五一劳动奖状等各级荣誉，一批先进个人获得各类表彰。
我院秉持“严谨、求是、高效、创新”的科学精神，紧紧围绕江西绿色崛起和永葆鄱阳湖一湖清水的大局，立足江西、面向全国、放眼世界，坚持“科研立院、人才强院、服务兴院”的办院理念，以科技创新“四个面向”为总遵循，勇当鄱阳湖流域生态水利科技的领军人、南方水土保持科技的排头兵，现已发展成为国内一流省级水利科技强院，正在向建设“有区域和学科特色国内一流现代化水利科学院”的目标迈进。
站在新的历史发展起点上，作为全省水利科技创新人才中心和创新高地，我院将以严谨的态度、务实的作风、高效的行动、过硬的技术，竭诚为社会各界提供精准科技服务。
Jiangxi Academy of Water Sciences and Engineering, or JAWSE, was established on December 27, 2020, by merging the former Jiangxi Provincial Institute of Hydraulic Sciences (founded in 1954) and the Jiangxi Provincial Institute of Soil and Water Conservation Science (founded in 1964). JAWSE, affiliated to Water Resource Department of Jiangxi Province, is a non-profit provincial institution integrating scientific research, technical services and achievements promotion of water conservancy, hydropower and soil and water conservation. Jiangxi Provincial Water Resources Management Center and Jiangxi Provincial Dam Safety Management Center are the same institution as JAWSE.
JAWSE mainly undertakes scientific research on major water issues, technical services of water conservancy, hydropower and soil and water conservation, research and evaluation on water resource related policies, technical specifications and standards, support services of water conservancy related pre-planning and project establishment demonstration, technical solutions and industry technical management, and carry out soil and water conservation monitoring, water conservancy related scientific and technological achievements transformation, promotion and application, popularization and science education, etc.
JAWSE has 12 approved internal departments as follows: Integrated Office, Department of Scientific Research and Technology, Department of Science and Technology Service, Department of Financing and Auditing, Department of Scientific Research Base Management, Institute of Water Resources Planning and Development, Institute of Water Resources and Aquatic Ecology, Institute of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation and Water Engineering Safety, Institute of Building Materials and Geotechnical Engineering, Institute of Smart Hydraulic Engineering, Institute of Rural Water Resources, and Institute of Soil and Water Conservation.
By August 2024, JAWSE headquarters (excluding two subordinate companies) has 368 staff members, including 297 professional and technical personnel. There are 50 people holding PhD degrees and 193 people holding master degrees, accounting for 68.5% of the total staff. There are 34 senior engineers, 110 associate senior engineer, and 113 engineers. There are 2 experts entitled to special allowances from the State Council, 1 expert awarded the National Innovation Excellence Award, 1 expert selected for the China Association for Science and Technology Youth Talent Promotion Project, 2 experts selected for the Double Thousand Plan of Jiangxi Province, 11 experts selected for the Jiangxi Province Hundred and Ten Thousand Talents Project, and 2 experts selected for the Double High Project of Jiangxi Province.
JAWSE has 3 large-scale scientific research bases as follows: Poyang Lake Model Experimental Research Base (located in Gongqing City, Jiangxi Province, China, covering an area of 500 mu), Jiangxi Soil and Water Conservation Ecological Science Park (located in De'an County, Jiangxi Province, China, covering an area of 1,200 mu), and Rural Ecological Water Conservancy Research and Demonstration Base (located in Nanfeng County, Jiangxi Province, China, covering an area of 580 mu). It has six scientific research platforms, including Poyang Lake Water Resources and Water Ecology and Environment Research Center of the Ministry of Water Resources, Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Flood and Drought Disaster Defense, Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Watershed Soil and Water Conservation, Jiangxi Provincial Hydraulic Safety Engineering Technology Research Center, Postdoctoral Research Station, and Jiangxi Provincial Eco-hydraulic Technology Innovation Center of Poyang Lake Basin. It has a provincial superior scientific and technological innovation team for soil and water conservation and water resources protection and utilization.
Since 2016, JAWSE has been approved for a total of more than 680 scientific research projects, achieving breakthroughs in both quantity and quality in national, provincial and ministerial scientific research projects such as the National Key R&D Project, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Jiangxi Provincial "Unveiling the Leader" Major Science and Technology Project, the National Science and Technology Award Reserve Cultivation Program Project, the Jiangxi Provincial Key R&D Project, and the Ministry of Water Resources' Industry Scientific Research Project. JAWSE has won 123 provincial, ministerial and prefectural and departmental science and technology awards, including 4 first prizes, 6 second prizes and 6 third prizes of Scientific and Technological Progress Awards of Jiangxi Province, 2 second prizes, 7 third prizes, 1 science popularization prize of Dayu Water Conservancy Science and Technology Award, 1 China Water Conservancy Engineering Quality Award, 2 first prizes, 3 second prizes and 1 third prize of the Excellent Design Award of the China Society of Water and Soil Conservation, 6 third prizes of the Science and Technology Award of the China Society of Water and Soil Conservation, and 4 second prizes and 1 science popularization prize of the Yangtze River Science and Technology Award. Besides, it also has won 66 Jiangxi Provincial Water Science and Technology Awards. JAWSE has published 1230 journal papers (including 134 SCI, 65 EI, and 366 Chinese core), and obtained 76 invention patents, 211 utility patents, and 21 design patents, published 36 books, and formulated or revised 50 standards and specifications.
JAWSE has 10 Grade A qualifications for dam safety identification, reservoir water storage safety identification, sluice safety identification, geotechnical engineering testing, concrete engineering testing, measurement testing, metal structure testing, mechanical and electrical testing, water resources demonstration, hydrological and water resources investigation and evaluation. JAWSE also has 5 Grade B qualifications for land planning, land reclamation engineering planning and design, engineering consulting, water conservancy engineering design, water conservancy (river improvement) engineering design. JAWSE also has the highest level (5 stars) evaluation certificate for both program preparation and monitoring of production and construction projects soil and water conservation. JAWSE also has been certified as Jiangxi Province AAA design agency credit rating on both land planning and land reclamation engineering planning and design. JAWSE has provided technical services for the industry and society in flood and drought disaster prevention, hydraulic project planning and design, physical model testing, engineering quality and building materials testing, hydraulic engineering safety monitoring and evaluation, comprehensive regulation and management of water resources, water ecological environmental protection and comprehensive management, rural water conservancy, smart water conservancy, soil erosion prevention and control, land consolidation planning and design, which has been fully affirmed by all stakeholders.
JAWSE has always adhered to leading development and serving development through Party building. Under the guidance of Party building, JAWSE has been making concerted efforts in scientific and technological innovation, support services, talent construction, and management reform, to start a new journey of high-quality leapfrog development of water conservancy science and technology in the continuous progress. JAWSE has put focus on the construction of innovative culture, and has formed an innovative culture with the characteristics of Jiangxi water conservancy science and technology by excavating and inheriting the profound historical and cultural heritage, which has become a spiritual beacon for JAWSE to reform and innovate, catch up with development, and strive for first-class. JAWSE has achieved remarkable results with wining amounts of honors in striving for excellence, including the 6th National Civilized Unit, National Water Conservancy Civilized Unit, Jiangxi Provincial Civilized Unit, National and Provincial Youth Civilized Units, National Advanced Units in Flood Resistance, National Advanced Collective in Water Conservancy System, National Advanced Collective in Water Science and Technology Work, National Women Civilized Posts, National Advanced Collective in Soil and Water Conservation Work, National Water Situation Education Base, National Science Public Education Base, Jiangxi Provincial Worker Pioneer Unit, and Jiangxi Provincial May 1st Labor Award, etc. Besides, a group of advanced individuals have won various commendations.
JAWSE adheres to the scientific spirit of "rigorous, truth-seeking, efficient and innovative", closely focuses on the overall situation of Jiangxi's green rise and the eternal maintenance of the clear water of Poyang Lake. Based on Jiangxi, facing the whole country and looking at the world, JAWSE adheres to the management philosophy of "research-oriented, talent-strengthened, and service-promoted". Guided by the overall principle of "four orientations" for technological innovation, JAWSE strives to be the leader of ecological water conservancy science and technology in the Poyang Lake Basin and the vanguard of soil and water conservation science and technology in southern China. JAWSE has now developed into a first-class provincial water conservancy institute in China, and is moving towards the goal of building a "domestic first-class modern hydraulic academy with regional and disciplinary characteristics".
Standing at a new historical development starting point, as the water conservancy scientific and technological innovation talents center and innovation highland in Jiangxi Province, JAWSE will wholeheartedly provide precise scientific and technological services to all sectors of society with rigorous attitude, practical style, efficient action, and excellent technology.
