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Miyun Reservoir
密云水库
LocationMiyun County, Beijing City
Typereservoir
Basin countriesChina
BuiltSeptember 1960

Miyun Reservoir (Chinese: 密云水库) is located 16 kilometers north of the Miyun District in Beijing, straddling the Chaohe River and Baihe River.[1] There are two major rivers flowing into the reservoir, namely the Bai River and the Chao River. It is the largest artificial lake in Asia[2] and is billed as the "Pearl in North China" (华北明珠).[3]

The reservoir covers an area of 180 square kilometers,[4] with a reservoir capacity of 4 billion cubic meters and an average depth of 30 meters, making it the largest[5] and only source of drinking water supply for Beijing,[6] serving over 11 million people.[7]

History

The construction of Miyun Reservoir started on 1 September 1958[8] and was completed in September 1960. [9] The chief designer of the project was Zhang Guangdou.[10] Its construction was designed by the Department of Water Resources of Tsinghua University,[11] with the participation of a large number of migrant workers from Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, and the Engineering Bureau of the Ministry of Water Resources and Electric Power. [12]

References

  1. ^ "Urban New Fashion-Forest Bath". Guangming Daily. 2001-04-25.
  2. ^ "A framework for determining the maximum allowable external load that will meet a guarantee probability of achieving water quality targets". ScienceDirect. 15 September 2020.
  3. ^ Ling Qin; Hongwen Huang (2009). Proceedings of the IVth International Chestnut Symposium: Beijing, China, September 25-28, 2008. International Society for Horticultural Science. ISBN 978-90-6605-672-5.
  4. ^ "New fence guards Miyun Reservoir". China Daily. 2018-05-04.
  5. ^ "Miyun Reservoir is full of farmhouses". People's Daily. Jul 30, 2014.
  6. ^ "Miyun Reservoir and other water source reserves to be redesignated". The Beijing News. 2018-12-21.
  7. ^ "Beijing's largest reservoir supplies water to dried-up river". Xinhuanet.com. 2019-06-01.
  8. ^ "Premier Zhou and the construction of Miyun Reservoir". People's Daily. Mar 12, 2019.
  9. ^ Jingjing Yan (27 August 2014). Comprehensive Evaluation of Effective Biomass Resource Utilization and Optimal Environmental Policies. Springer. pp. 23–. ISBN 978-3-662-44454-2.
  10. ^ Lawrence R. Sullivan; Nancy Y. Liu-Sullivan (19 March 2015). Historical Dictionary of Science and Technology in Modern China. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 487–. ISBN 978-0-8108-7855-6.
  11. ^ "Mao Zedong and Tsinghua University: An Unbreakable Bond". People's Daily. Dec 26, 2008.
  12. ^ China Today. China Welfare Institute. 2003.