The Key Laboratory of Poyang Lake Environment and Resource Utilization of the Ministry of Education is a comprehensive innovation platform that focuses on the research of Poyang Lake and its basin, and conducts theoretical and technological research on major scientific and technological issues in the field of lake ecological environment protection and resource utilization.
Poyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake in China, maintaining its natural characteristics of being connected to the river, shallow, grassy, and congested. It plays an important ecological role in flood control and water storage, climate regulation, pollution degradation, and biodiversity maintenance. It is the lake with the richest biodiversity in the Yangtze River Basin, and protecting the ecological environment of Poyang Lake is extremely important for maintaining ecological security in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Thoroughly studying the natural characteristics, evolution laws, and protection and management strategies of Poyang Lake is a basic requirement for ecological civilization construction, which is of great significance for promoting lake science, wetland science, and natural resource management and utilization.
Nanchang University takes serving national and regional development as its mission, integrating multiple disciplines such as environmental science, ecology, biology, hydrology and water resources, management science, and water conservancy engineering to form a research platform. Focusing on the unique resource of Poyang Lake, with water security as the main line, the university conducts interdisciplinary research from the aspects of water resources, water environment, water ecology, and water management, making important contributions to the protection of Poyang Lake's ecological environment and local socio-economic development.
