The Economics and Management Data Intelligence Experimental Center of Business School is a demonstration center for experimental teaching in Jiangsu Province, with a total of 9 teaching and scientific research laboratories, a laboratory area of 1,550 square meters, 22 experimental professional servers, 350 student machines, 41 experimental courses, 162 experimental projects, and an average annual experimental machine hours of about 100,000 hours. In the past 5 years, nearly 20 million yuan has been invested in software and hardware equipment.

In recent years, the School has focused on building the Water Governance Intelligent Laboratory, with the core concept of demand traction, application first, digital empowerment, and capacity improvement, and is committed to becoming a world-renowned water governance intelligent platform to deal with key scientific issues such as water resources management, water network construction, water conflict and water cooperation. Relying on the advantages of Hohai University's double-first-class discipline construction, combined with regional and industry cooperation resources, the laboratory builds a comprehensive intelligent platform for water governance integrating talent training and scientific and technological innovation. Driven by new quality productivity, the laboratory strives to become a research base that leads the innovation of water treatment. The laboratory focuses on the cross-integration of liberal arts such as business administration and first-class disciplines such as hydraulic engineering, builds an independent knowledge system across disciplines, and leads the development of global water characteristic business administration disciplines. Relying on the disciplines of Business Administration (the dominant discipline of Jiangsu universities), Management Science and Engineering (the dominant discipline of Jiangsu universities), Public Administration (the key discipline of Jiangsu Province), Sociology (the key discipline of Jiangsu Province), Water Conservancy Engineering (the double first-class construction discipline), and Environmental Science and Engineering (the double first-class construction discipline), the laboratory closely focuses on the national water control strategy and regional development needs, and uses cutting-edge technologies such as integrated big data and artificial intelligence to develop water strategic policy and intelligence monitoring, water network engineering and water resource value realization. Carry out research work in five directions, including water-saving industry and smart water conservation, water conflict and emergency decision-making, and Belt and Road water cooperation and risk early warning, so as to promote the transformation of the theoretical research paradigm of water governance to a data-driven direction, and provide Chinese wisdom for national and global water resource governance. At present, the laboratory has built an architecture that integrates hardware, data management, algorithm model platform and application system platform for economic and management disciplines, including 1 data center, 4 research-based platforms including business data experimental platform, competitive intelligence experimental platform, management behavior experimental platform, engineering BIM experimental platform, and 14 data collection, calculation and analysis service software platforms. There are 207 teaching and scientific research experimental projects, and more than 1TB of dedicated databases have been accumulated.

In the past five years, the center has undertaken more than 500 related scientific research projects, with a total funding of more than 18,000 yuan, including more than 20 major key projects of the National Social Science Fund; published more than 1,000 related academic papers; It has obtained more than 90 authorized patents at home and abroad; The project was established to build 1 innovation team of the Ministry of Education and 3 innovation teams of philosophy and social sciences in Jiangsu universities; He has won 7 Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Awards of Colleges and Universities of the Ministry of Education and 26 Outstanding Achievement Awards of Social Sciences of Jiangsu Province; More than 20 research results have been adopted by government departments at the provincial and ministerial level and above and approved by major leaders.