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'''Miyun Reservoir''' ("Miyun" means "Dense Clouds",<ref name="TortajadaAltinbilek2012">{{cite book|author1=Cecilia Tortajada|author2=Dogan Altinbilek|author3=Asit K. Biswas|title=Impacts of Large Dams: A Global Assessment|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l9TqBAzMuu8C&pg=PA242|date=10 January 2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-642-23571-9|pages=242–}}</ref> {{zh|密云水库}})<ref name="YANG2013">{{cite book|author=Dongping YANG|title=Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment, Volume 1: Urban Challenges, Public Participation, and Natural Disasters|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hgQSBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA415|date=1 March 2013|publisher=[[Brill Publishers]]|isbn=978-90-04-24954-7|pages=415–}}</ref> is a large-scale [[reservoir]] in the [[People's Republic of China]], located 16 kilometers north of the [[Miyun District]] in Beijing, straddling the [[Chaohe River]] (潮河) and [[Baihe River]] (白河).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gmw.cn/01gmrb/2001-04/25/03-902B96BB6BFE68D248256A3900011AD8.htm|title=Urban New Fashion-Forest Bath|first= |last= |date=2001-04-25|accessdate=|work=[[Guangming Daily]]}}</ref> There are two major rivers flowing into the reservoir, namely the Bai River and the Chao River. The reservoir was formally completed on September 1, 1960. <ref>{{cite web |url=https://bjrbdzb.bjd.com.cn/bjrb/mobile/2020/20200901/20200901_005/content_20200901_005_1.htm|title=Report on the 60th anniversary of Miyun Reservoir|first= |last= |date=September 1, 2020|accessdate=|publisher=[[Beijing Daily]]}}</ref>
The '''Miyun Reservoir''' ({{zh|s=密云水库|p=Mìyún Shuǐkù}})<ref name="YANG2013">{{cite book|author=Dongping YANG|title=Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment, Volume 1: Urban Challenges, Public Participation, and Natural Disasters|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hgQSBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA415|date=1 March 2013|publisher=[[Brill Publishers]]|isbn=978-90-04-24954-7|pages=415–}}</ref> is a large-scale [[reservoir]] in [[Miyun District]], [[Beijing]], [[China]], straddling the [[Chao River]] (潮河) and [[Bai River (Beijing)|Bai River]] (白河).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gmw.cn/01gmrb/2001-04/25/03-902B96BB6BFE68D248256A3900011AD8.htm|title=Urban New Fashion-Forest Bath|first= |last= |date=2001-04-25|accessdate=|work=[[Guangming Daily]]}}</ref> There are two major rivers flowing into the reservoir, namely the Bai River and the Chao River. The reservoir was formally completed on September 1, 1960.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bjrbdzb.bjd.com.cn/bjrb/mobile/2020/20200901/20200901_005/content_20200901_005_1.htm|title=Report on the 60th anniversary of Miyun Reservoir|first= |last= |date=September 1, 2020|accessdate=|publisher=[[Beijing Daily]]}}</ref>


Miyun Reservoir is the largest comprehensive water conservancy project in [[North China]]. <ref>{{Cite web|title=国家相册第三季第28集《饮水思源头》|url=http://www.xinhuanet.com/video/2020-11/13/c_1210885701.htm|author=|date=2020-11-13|format=|publisher=|agency=[[Xinhua News Agency]]|language=zh|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116095148/http://www.xinhuanet.com/video/2020-11/13/c_1210885701.htm|archivedate=2020-11-16}}</ref> The reservoir covers an area of 180 square kilometers,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201805/04/WS5aeb9b8ca3105cdcf651bde0.html|title=New fence guards Miyun Reservoir|first= |last= |date=2018-05-04|accessdate=|work=[[China Daily]]}}</ref> with a reservoir capacity of 4 billion cubic meters and an average depth of 30 meters, making it the largest<ref>{{cite web |url=http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2014/0730/c70731-25366203.html|title=Miyun Reservoir is full of farmhouses|first= |last= |date=Jul 30, 2014|accessdate=|work=[[People's Daily]]}}</ref> and only source of drinking-water supply for Beijing,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2018/12/21/532503.html|title=Miyun Reservoir and other water source reserves to be redesignated|first= |last= |date=2018-12-21|accessdate=|work=[[The Beijing News]]}}</ref> serving over 11 million people.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-06/01/c_138108133.htm|title=Beijing's largest reservoir supplies water to dried-up river |first= |last= |date= 2019-06-01|accessdate=|work=[[Xinhuanet.com]]}}</ref>
The Miyun Reservoir is the largest comprehensive water conservancy project in [[North China]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=国家相册第三季第28集《饮水思源头》|url=http://www.xinhuanet.com/video/2020-11/13/c_1210885701.htm|author=|date=2020-11-13|format=|publisher=|agency=[[Xinhua News Agency]]|language=zh|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116095148/http://www.xinhuanet.com/video/2020-11/13/c_1210885701.htm|archivedate=2020-11-16}}</ref> The reservoir covers an area of 180 square kilometers,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201805/04/WS5aeb9b8ca3105cdcf651bde0.html|title=New fence guards Miyun Reservoir|first= |last= |date=2018-05-04|accessdate=|work=[[China Daily]]}}</ref> with a reservoir capacity of 4 billion cubic meters and an average depth of 30 meters, making it the largest<ref>{{cite web |url=http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2014/0730/c70731-25366203.html|title=Miyun Reservoir is full of farmhouses|first= |last= |date=Jul 30, 2014|accessdate=|work=[[People's Daily]]}}</ref> and only source of drinking-water supply for Beijing,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2018/12/21/532503.html|title=Miyun Reservoir and other water source reserves to be redesignated|first= |last= |date=2018-12-21|accessdate=|work=[[The Beijing News]]}}</ref> serving over 11 million people.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-06/01/c_138108133.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190601064248/http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-06/01/c_138108133.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 1, 2019|title=Beijing's largest reservoir supplies water to dried-up river |first= |last= |date= 2019-06-01|accessdate=|work=[[Xinhuanet.com]]}}</ref>


Miyun Reservoir is the largest [[artificial lake]] in Asia<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wang |first1=Xiaoyan |last2=Pang |first2=Shujiang |last3=Yang |first3=Lin |last4=Melching |first4=Charles S. |title=A framework for determining the maximum allowable external load that will meet a guarantee probability of achieving water quality targets |journal=Science of the Total Environment |date=September 2020 |volume=735 |pages=139421 |doi=10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139421 |pmid=32480150 |bibcode=2020ScTEn.735m9421W }}</ref> and is billed as the "Pearl in North China" (华北明珠).<ref name="QinHuang2009">{{cite book|author1=Ling Qin|author2=Hongwen Huang|title=Proceedings of the IVth International Chestnut Symposium: Beijing, China, September 25–28, 2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XzcfAQAAMAAJ|year=2009|publisher=[[International Society for Horticultural Science]]|isbn=978-90-6605-672-5}}</ref>
The Miyun Reservoir is the largest [[artificial lake]] in Asia<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wang |first1=Xiaoyan |last2=Pang |first2=Shujiang |last3=Yang |first3=Lin |last4=Melching |first4=Charles S. |title=A framework for determining the maximum allowable external load that will meet a guarantee probability of achieving water quality targets |journal=Science of the Total Environment |date=September 2020 |volume=735 |pages=139421 |doi=10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139421 |pmid=32480150 |bibcode=2020ScTEn.735m9421W |s2cid=219168702 }}</ref> and is billed as the "Pearl in North China" (华北明珠).<ref name="QinHuang2009">{{cite book|author1=Ling Qin|author2=Hongwen Huang|title=Proceedings of the IVth International Chestnut Symposium: Beijing, China, September 25–28, 2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XzcfAQAAMAAJ|year=2009|publisher=[[International Society for Horticultural Science]]|isbn=978-90-6605-672-5}}</ref>


==History==
==History==
Construction of Miyun Reservoir started on 1 September 1958<ref>{{cite web |url=http://zhouenlai.people.cn/n1/2019/0312/c409117-30972175.html|title=Premier Zhou and the construction of Miyun Reservoir|first= |last= |date=Mar 12, 2019|accessdate=|work=[[People's Daily]]}}</ref> and was completed in September 1960. <ref name="Yan2014">{{cite book|author=Jingjing Yan|title=Comprehensive Evaluation of Effective Biomass Resource Utilization and Optimal Environmental Policies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dbpeBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA23|date=27 August 2014|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-662-44454-2|pages=23–}}</ref> The [[chief designer]] of the project was [[Zhang Guangdou]].<ref name="SullivanLiu-Sullivan2015">{{cite book|author1=Lawrence R. Sullivan|author2=Nancy Y. Liu-Sullivan|title=Historical Dictionary of Science and Technology in Modern China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DGCGBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA487|date=19 March 2015|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-0-8108-7855-6|pages=487–}}</ref>
Construction of the Miyun Reservoir started on 1 September 1958<ref>{{cite web |url=http://zhouenlai.people.cn/n1/2019/0312/c409117-30972175.html|title=Premier Zhou and the construction of Miyun Reservoir|first= |last= |date=Mar 12, 2019|accessdate=|work=[[People's Daily]]}}</ref> and was completed in September 1960.<ref name="Yan2014">{{cite book|author=Jingjing Yan|title=Comprehensive Evaluation of Effective Biomass Resource Utilization and Optimal Environmental Policies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dbpeBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA23|date=27 August 2014|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-662-44454-2|pages=23–}}</ref> The [[chief designer]] of the project was [[Zhang Guangdou]].<ref name="SullivanLiu-Sullivan2015">{{cite book|author1=Lawrence R. Sullivan|author2=Nancy Y. Liu-Sullivan|title=Historical Dictionary of Science and Technology in Modern China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DGCGBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA487|date=19 March 2015|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-0-8108-7855-6|pages=487–}}</ref>


Miyun Reservoir was designed by the Department of Water Resources of [[Tsinghua University]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cpc.people.com.cn/GB/85037/85038/8618625.html|title=Mao Zedong and Tsinghua University: An Unbreakable Bond|first= |last= |date=Dec 26, 2008|accessdate=|work=[[People's Daily]]}}</ref> with the participation of a large number of [[migrant worker]]s from Beijing, [[Tianjin]] and [[Hebei]], and the Engineering Bureau of the Ministry of Water Resources and Electric Power. <ref>{{cite book|title=China Today|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rv0VAQAAIAAJ|year=2003|publisher=China Welfare Institute}}</ref>
The Miyun Reservoir was designed by the Department of Water Resources of [[Tsinghua University]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cpc.people.com.cn/GB/85037/85038/8618625.html|title=Mao Zedong and Tsinghua University: An Unbreakable Bond|first=|last=|date=Dec 26, 2008|accessdate=|work=[[People's Daily]]|archive-date=March 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301201031/http://cpc.people.com.cn/GB/85037/85038/8618625.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> with the participation of a large number of [[migrant worker]]s from Beijing, [[Tianjin]] and [[Hebei]], and the Engineering Bureau of the Ministry of Water Resources and Electric Power.<ref>{{cite book|title=China Today|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rv0VAQAAIAAJ|year=2003|publisher=China Welfare Institute}}</ref>


==Surrounding environment==
==Surrounding environment==
Along the Miyun Reservoir, there is a 110-kilometer-long [[Huanku Road]] (环库公路).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://travel.sohu.com/20070525/n250225379_1.shtml|title=A collection of cool summer reservoirs around Beijing|first= |last= |date=2007-05-25|accessdate=|work=[[Sohu]]}}</ref>
Along the Miyun Reservoir, there is a 110-kilometer-long Huanku Road (环库公路).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://travel.sohu.com/20070525/n250225379_1.shtml|title=A collection of cool summer reservoirs around Beijing|first= |last= |date=2007-05-25|accessdate=|work=[[Sohu]]}}</ref>


== References ==
== References ==
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Miyun Reservoir
密云水库
Miyun Reservoir is located in Beijing
Miyun Reservoir
Miyun Reservoir
LocationMiyun District, Beijing
Coordinates40°29′N 116°59′E / 40.48°N 116.98°E / 40.48; 116.98
Typereservoir
Basin countriesChina
BuiltSeptember 1, 1960

The Miyun Reservoir (Chinese: 密云水库; pinyin: Mìyún Shuǐkù)[1] is a large-scale reservoir in Miyun District, Beijing, China, straddling the Chao River (潮河) and Bai River (白河).[2] There are two major rivers flowing into the reservoir, namely the Bai River and the Chao River. The reservoir was formally completed on September 1, 1960.[3]

The Miyun Reservoir is the largest comprehensive water conservancy project in North China.[4] The reservoir covers an area of 180 square kilometers,[5] with a reservoir capacity of 4 billion cubic meters and an average depth of 30 meters, making it the largest[6] and only source of drinking-water supply for Beijing,[7] serving over 11 million people.[8]

The Miyun Reservoir is the largest artificial lake in Asia[9] and is billed as the "Pearl in North China" (华北明珠).[10]

History

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Construction of the Miyun Reservoir started on 1 September 1958[11] and was completed in September 1960.[12] The chief designer of the project was Zhang Guangdou.[13]

The Miyun Reservoir was designed by the Department of Water Resources of Tsinghua University,[14] 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.[15]

Surrounding environment

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Along the Miyun Reservoir, there is a 110-kilometer-long Huanku Road (环库公路).[16]

References

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  1. ^ Dongping YANG (1 March 2013). Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment, Volume 1: Urban Challenges, Public Participation, and Natural Disasters. Brill Publishers. pp. 415–. ISBN 978-90-04-24954-7.
  2. ^ "Urban New Fashion-Forest Bath". Guangming Daily. 2001-04-25.
  3. ^ "Report on the 60th anniversary of Miyun Reservoir". Beijing Daily. September 1, 2020.
  4. ^ "国家相册第三季第28集《饮水思源头》" (in Chinese). Xinhua News Agency. 2020-11-13. Archived from the original on 2020-11-16.
  5. ^ "New fence guards Miyun Reservoir". China Daily. 2018-05-04.
  6. ^ "Miyun Reservoir is full of farmhouses". People's Daily. Jul 30, 2014.
  7. ^ "Miyun Reservoir and other water source reserves to be redesignated". The Beijing News. 2018-12-21.
  8. ^ "Beijing's largest reservoir supplies water to dried-up river". Xinhuanet.com. 2019-06-01. Archived from the original on June 1, 2019.
  9. ^ Wang, Xiaoyan; Pang, Shujiang; Yang, Lin; Melching, Charles S. (September 2020). "A framework for determining the maximum allowable external load that will meet a guarantee probability of achieving water quality targets". Science of the Total Environment. 735: 139421. Bibcode:2020ScTEn.735m9421W. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139421. PMID 32480150. S2CID 219168702.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ "Premier Zhou and the construction of Miyun Reservoir". People's Daily. Mar 12, 2019.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ "Mao Zedong and Tsinghua University: An Unbreakable Bond". People's Daily. Dec 26, 2008. Archived from the original on March 1, 2021.
  15. ^ China Today. China Welfare Institute. 2003.
  16. ^ "A collection of cool summer reservoirs around Beijing". Sohu. 2007-05-25.
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