Gansu water resources and Hydropower Survey and Design Research Institute Co., Ltd. (Lanzhou survey, design and Research Institute, Ministry of water resources) was founded in June 1958. In 1985, it implemented enterprise management of public institutions. In September 2008, it was transformed into an enterprise owned by the whole people. In November 2017, it was transformed into a wholly state-owned limited liability company, In 2018, it became a subsidiary of Gansu Engineering Consulting Group Co., Ltd., and followed the group to realize the overall listing.

The company has 11 management functional departments, including the office of the company, strategic development department, human resources department (Party Committee Organization Department), financial assets department, production and operation management department, chief engineer's office, Party Mass Work Department, discipline inspection and supervision department, labor union, engineering digital center, comprehensive service management center, and Planning Institute, No.1 Engineering Design Institute, No.2 Engineering Design Institute, and environmental municipal facilities There are 11 production departments, including planning institute, mechanical and Electrical Design Institute, Engineering Survey Institute, engineering surveying and Mapping Institute, exploration company, engineering consulting center, testing center, engineering construction management company, 1 wholly-owned subsidiary - Ganlan Design Institute, and 1 joint-stock company - gulangyonghe new energy investment company. It has set up a branch in Tibet, an office in Xinjiang and a branch in Chongqing.

At present, there are 989 officially registered employees, including 40 senior engineers, 319 senior engineers and 268 intermediate professional titles. There are 393 national registered practitioners, 1 provincial survey and design master, 2 provincial leading talents and 1 State Council special allowance expert.

The company holds 13 class A qualifications, including engineering design, engineering surveying and mapping, engineering consulting, hydropower generation, engineering supervision, soil and water conservation, water resources demonstration, hydrological and water resources investigation and evaluation, water conservancy project quality inspection, and several class B qualifications such as new energy power generation and wind power generation, and has obtained quality ISO9001, environmental ISO14001, occupational health and safety OHSAS18001 management system Certification certificate. The company's business scope covers water conservancy and hydropower engineering planning and design (including water conservancy and power industry), engineering consulting, demonstration research, engineering survey, engineering supervision, engineering surveying and mapping, water and soil conservation scheme preparation, environmental impact assessment of construction projects, water resources demonstration of construction projects, investigation and evaluation of water resources, new energy engineering design, engineering design of construction industry, etc. Business scope throughout the country, and in Pakistan, Indonesia, Belarus, the Philippines and other countries also expand the relevant business.

Over the past 60 years since its establishment, the Institute has undertaken to complete comprehensive water resources planning, ecological environment management planning, water conservancy development planning, major water diversion (lifting) project planning, comprehensive planning and special planning of flood control, water-saving irrigation and basin water energy planning of important cities, and technical services such as major flood control, drought relief and emergency rescue. Major water conservancy projects such as Jingtaichuan electric power irrigation, water diversion from Datong to Qinhuangdao, water supply from Taohe River, key management of Shiyang River Basin, hydropower stations and reservoirs represented by Jiudian gorge of Tao River, west water flow of Heihe River, qingyanggou of Shule River and Chaijia gorge of Yellow River, comprehensive management projects of river basins represented by Shiyang River, Heihe River, Shule River and Danghe River, and danger removal of dangerous reservoirs The investigation and design work of thousands of water conservancy and hydropower projects at home and abroad, such as reinforcement, water-saving transformation of large and medium-sized irrigation areas, transformation of large and medium-sized pumping stations, etc. He has participated in the supervision work of the Middle Route Project of South to North Water Transfer, Eastern Shenzhen water supply, Guangxi Datengxia water control project, phase II water supply from Taohe River Diversion Project, flood control of the main stream of the Yellow River, etc. It has undertaken the survey and design tasks of more than 100 new energy projects, such as Hongshagang million kilowatt wind power project in Minqin, Gansu Province, and 25MW optoelectronic project in Qushui, Tibet. It has also undertaken and completed the EPC project with billions of yuan investment, such as Shimengou No.2 reservoir project in Lanzhou New Area, and cooperated with central enterprises to build Gansu Gulang 100MW wind farm with good benefits.

After more than 60 years of development, it has formed the survey and design advantage technology represented by high lift and large flow pumping project, large-scale inter basin water transfer project, large-scale irrigation area and immigration comprehensive development project, long-distance water transfer project through desert, comprehensive utilization and ecological management of water resources in the basin, high-rise concrete face rockfill dam, cascade power station construction, new energy and so on.

Since 1978, it has won more than 200 provincial and ministerial level technical achievement awards, and won more than 20 honors such as national excellent water conservancy enterprise, national advanced unit of quality and efficiency of water conservancy system, and provincial civilized model unit.