The Institute of Seawater Desalination and Multipurpose Utilization, Ministry of Natural Resources (Tianjin), (hereinafter abbreviated to ISDMU) is the only non-profit state level research organization in China in seawater desalination and utilization technologies area. “National Quality Supervision and Inspection Center for Sea & Brackish Utilization Products”, “National Engineering Technology Research Center of seawater utilization”, “National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of Seawater Desalination Technology”, “Seawater desalination and multipurpose utilization branch of National committee for marine technology standardization”, “Supervision & Inspection Center for Liquid Separation Membrane Product of the Membrane Industry Association of China”, “IORA RCSTT Regional Coordination Center for Desalination Technologies” and ”Asia-Pacific Desalination Association secretariat ”, are affiliated to ISDMU.