A few ground rules before getting into the list:
- The positions being checked here are all in municipal water supply and drainage.
- Employee social insurance headcount comes from Qichacha’s 2022 data.
- In the current market, many design institutes have effectively raised the academic threshold to a master’s degree.
- If a location is not explicitly stated, it is assumed to be in the provincial capital.
Henan
Zhengzhou Municipal Engineering Survey and Design Research Institute
- Type: Municipal state-owned enterprise
- Insured employees: 297
- Qualification: Class A qualification in the municipal design sector
- Website: http://www.zzszy.com
- Application email: [email protected]
Hiring requirements
- Campus recruitment: Fresh graduates with a master’s degree
- Experienced hires: Experience at a Class A institute or possession of a registered professional certificate
Among local municipal institutes, this is a fairly standard state-owned option, but the entry bar is already at the graduate level for new hires.
Zhengzhou University Comprehensive Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd.
- Type: University-affiliated state-owned enterprise
- Insured employees: 1,078
- Qualification: Class B specialized municipal design qualifications in road engineering, bridge engineering, water supply engineering, and drainage engineering
- Website: http://www.zdsjy.com (the site was temporarily inaccessible)
- Application channel: Zhilian Recruitment
Hiring requirements
- Campus recruitment: Bachelor’s degree or above
Compared with many institutes now leaning toward master’s degrees, this one looks relatively more open on paper.
Sinopec Zhongyuan Petroleum Engineering Design Co., Ltd.
- Type: State-owned enterprise
- Insured employees: 536
- Qualification: Class B specialized municipal design qualifications in road engineering, bridge engineering, water supply engineering, and drainage engineering
- Website: http://spezy.sinopec.com/spezy/
- Application channel: http://job.sinopec.com/#/school/home
Hiring requirements
- Campus recruitment: Strict English requirements: CET-6 score of 425 or above, or IELTS 6.0 or above, or TOEFL iBT 80 or above; candidates must also accept deployment adjustments.
This one is highly competitive, and the work location is not fixed, which is something applicants need to think through carefully.
Anhui
Hefei Municipal Design Institute
- Type: State-owned enterprise, a subsidiary of Shanghai Urban Construction Design & Research Institute (Group) Co., Ltd.
- Insured employees: 321
- Qualification: No official website was available, and qualification details were difficult to verify
- Website: None found
- Application channel: http://campus.51job.com/sucdri/about.html
Hiring requirements
- Campus recruitment: No explicit written rule was found, but in practice it is basically 211-university master’s degree and above.
The lack of a clear official information channel makes this one harder to assess from the outside.
Hefei Planning and Design Institute
- Type: Municipal state-owned enterprise
- Insured employees: 290
- Qualifications: Eight Class A qualifications, including urban and rural planning, architectural engineering, landscape engineering design, municipal road engineering, municipal urban tunnel engineering, municipal bridge engineering, municipal drainage engineering, and engineering consulting
- Website: http://www.hupdi.com/
- Application channel: http://www.hupdi.com/DocHtml/1/Article_20225231259.html
Hiring requirements
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Campus recruitment:
1. Full-time bachelor’s degree or above in water supply and drainage engineering, environmental engineering, municipal engineering, or related majors
2. Preference for graduates from 985 universities or Double First-Class disciplines -
Experienced hires:
1. Full-time bachelor’s degree or above in water supply and drainage engineering, municipal engineering, or related majors
2. Preference for 985 or Double First-Class backgrounds
3. At least 3 years of experience at a Class A design institute, with experience serving as project lead for municipal water supply/drainage or water environment治理 projects
4. Experience in designing water plants, pumping stations, or water environment projects preferred
5. Experience building mathematical models for drainage, flood control, and water quality preferred
Employment arrangement
- Hires who already hold registered professional qualifications (architecture, structure, public equipment) sign a labor contract directly with the institute.
- Other hires sign with the institute’s partnered labor dispatch company for the first year; after one year, those with strong performance may sign directly with the institute.
This is one of the more detailed and structured recruiting profiles in the group, and the preference for stronger academic backgrounds is obvious.
Anhui Tendering Group
Not a design position
- Type: Private enterprise
- Insured employees: 534
- Website: http://www.ah-inter.com/index.htm
- Application channel: Zhilian Recruitment
Hiring requirements
- Campus recruitment: Unified screening
Additional notes: compensation is considered fairly good, and the company has a strong reputation within Anhui. Competition is intense, with many 985 master’s graduates and overseas master’s graduates applying in the latest autumn cycle. Tendering roles also require frequent business travel.
Anhui Urban and Rural Planning & Design Institute
- Type: Former state-owned enterprise, later restructured
- Insured employees: 257
- Qualification: Class A municipal design qualification
- Website: http://www.ahghy.com
- Application channel: http://www.ahghy.com/news-9/87.html
Hiring requirements
- There was no autumn recruitment in 2022.
Additional note: for municipal water supply and drainage, overtime is reportedly heavy, but pay is also relatively high, and the overall reputation is fairly good.
Anhui Urban Construction Design & Research Institute
A very blunt assessment from people who have spent time there: many alumni and classmates reportedly found the environment deeply unfriendly to staff, with severe pressure placed on designers for the benefit of management. The verdict given was harsh: not recommended at all.
Anhui Transport Planning and Design Research Institute
This institute is said to have extremely heavy overtime, and even a six-day workweek. Anyone considering it should decide based on what they can actually accept—work is supposed to support life, not replace it.
There were also outside comments circulating online about Anhui-based design institutes in general:
Jiangsu
CCCC Urban Planning & Design Group / Huashe Design Group
- Former names: Zhongshe Design Group; Jiangsu Provincial Transportation Planning and Design Institute
- Type: Listed company
- Insured employees: 2,920
- Qualification: Comprehensive Class A engineering design qualification
- Website: http://www.cdg.com.cn
- Application channel: Official website link
Hiring requirements
- Campus recruitment: Unified screening
This is a major platform by scale and qualification level, and naturally one of the more prominent names in Jiangsu.
Tus-Design Group Co., Ltd. (Suzhou)
- Former name: Suzhou Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd.
- Type: Listed company
- Insured employees: 937
- Qualification: Class B municipal engineering, and Class A architectural engineering / civil air defense engineering
- Website: http://www.siad-c.com/default.aspx
- Application channel: 51job
Hiring requirements
- Campus recruitment: Unified screening
Zhejiang
China United Engineering Corporation
The company’s profile and visual presentation alone make it clear how strong this platform is.
- Former name: Second Design and Research Institute of the Ministry of Machine-Building Industry
- Type: Central state-owned enterprise
- Insured employees: 2,453
- Qualification: Comprehensive Class A engineering design qualification
- Website: http://www.chinacuc.com/
- Application channel: Official website link
Hiring requirements
- Campus recruitment: Unified screening
This is the kind of employer that is widely recognized on name alone.
Hangzhou Urban and Rural Construction Design Co., Ltd.
- Type: Restructured from a state-owned enterprise
- Insured employees: 572
- Qualifications: Six Class A design qualifications in gas, roads, water supply, drainage, bridges and tunnels, and architectural engineering
- Website: http://www.tcgc.ltd/Home/Index/index.html
- Application channel: Official website link
Hiring requirements
- Campus recruitment: Unified screening
Tongchuang Engineering Design Co., Ltd. (Shaoxing)
- Former name: Shaoxing Municipal Design Institute Co., Ltd.
- Type: Private enterprise
- Insured employees: 473
- Qualification: Class B municipal public utility qualification for water supply and drainage
- Website: http://www.hzscxsj.com/index.aspx
- Application channel: Official website link
Hiring requirements
- Campus recruitment: Unified screening
Zhejiang Engineering Design Co., Ltd.
- Former name: Planning and Design Institute of Juhua Group
- Type: State-controlled enterprise
- Insured employees: 220
- Qualification: Primarily a chemical industry design institute, mainly handling water supply and drainage for chemical buildings/projects
- Website: None found
- Application channel: 51job
Hiring requirements
- Campus recruitment: Unified screening
Taken together, these institutes show a clear pattern: municipal water and drainage roles are still available across Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang, but the thresholds are getting higher, the screening is often centralized, and the differences in workload and treatment can be dramatic from one institute to another. For anyone targeting this field, qualification level and company background matter, but so do contract arrangements, overtime culture, and whether the job location is stable.