The Center has the following 3 offices: Circulation, Acquisition and Cataloging Office, Editorial Office of Hydro-Science and Engineering, and Information Research Office.
Areas of Interest:
Purchase, collection, management and circulation of books and periodicals;
Editing and publishing of Hydro-Science and Engineering;
Development, utilization and services of information resources;
Review and translation of hydro information;
Technical information exchange with foreign institutions (long-term exchange with dozens of academic/research institutions);
Exchange activities of information networks.

Ther Center has a collection of more than 320,000 volumes/copies of books and periodicals: Chinese and foreign books: more than 15,000 copies (from the year of 1914);
Chinese and foreign periodicals: more than 60,000 volumes/over 1,000 categories (from the year of 1908);
Bibliographic documents: more than 100,000 volumes (from the year of 1935);
Current purchase of scientific books—more than 2,000 copies a year;
Current order of scientific periodicals—more than 600 categories (over 500 Chinese and 120 foreign ones);
Database: Weipu, CNKI periodical full-text database, Wanfang database for doctor and master dissertations, full-text database for conference papers;
Developed database: cataloging database for Chinese and foreign books, title database for Chinese and foreign periodicals, database for research achievements, database for awarded projects, title database for international conference papers and abstract database of foreign books.