Founded in 1956, Guangxi Vocational College of Water Resources and Electric Power (hereinafter referred to as GCWE) is a National "Double High Plan" Project Construction Unit, National Backbone Higher Vocational College, a National High-quality Higher Vocational College of Water Conservancy, a National Demonstrative Vocational College of Water Conservancy, an outstanding institution in the construction of high-level higher vocational schools and professional groups in Guangxi, a demonstrative higher vocational college in Guangxi, as well as a training base for water conservancy talents in Guangxi minority areas of the Ministry of Water Resources of China.

GCWE is located in Nanning, the capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, covering an area of 733.42 acres, with two campuses: Changgang and Lijian. It comprises 11 secondary schools, including the School of Water Conservancy Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering, School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, School of Information Engineering, School of Economics and Management, School of Civil and Architectural Engineering, School of Transportation Engineering, and School of Automation Engineering. The college offers 56 associate-degree programs in eight major professional clusters, such as Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Power System Automation Technology, Intelligent Manufacturing, and Modern Information Technology. The college has over 1,500 full-time and part-time faculty members and more than 23,000 full-time enrolled students. It is home to four national key majors, three backbone majors, two pilot majors for modern apprenticeship programs, three national-level high-quality water conservancy majors, and four autonomous region-level high-level professional clusters. Additionally, it hosts two national-level productive training bases, 21 autonomous region-level vocational education demonstration training bases, and 56 on-campus integrated theory-practice teaching sites, creating a professional practice platform for cultivating high-quality technical and skilled talents.

GCWE actively responds to the “Belt and Road” Initiative by taking the lead in establishing the China-ASEAN Energy Vocational Education Alliance and actively engaging in skills training, talent cultivation, and cultural exchanges with ASEAN countries. It has built overseas education programs and bases, including the China-Cambodia Institute of Modern Craftsmanship of Green Energy, and 8 “Guishui Workshops,” offering “Chinese + Vocational Skills” training programs that have trained nearly 5,000 skilled personnel from ASEAN countries. The college also actively develops cooperative programs such as the China-UK Joint Education Program, the France Schneider Electric Green and Low-Carbon Industry-Education Integration Project, and the Sino-German Advanced Vocational Education Cooperation Project. It has jointly developed and shared 43 water conservancy and hydropower teaching standards and job standards, among which two standards — the “Hydropower Engineering Technician Job Standard” and the “Smart Water Conservancy Engineering Technician Job Standard” — have been adopted as national occupational standards by Laos. Currently, over 1,000 outstanding graduates of the college are involved in water conservancy and hydropower engineering projects in Belt and Road countries such as Cambodia, Vietnam, and Pakistan. In 2024, the college was selected as a “China-ASEAN Vocational Education Excellent Partner,” and in 2025, it received the title of “Model Institution for International Exchange and Cooperation in Vocational Education.”