Guanting Reservoir

Guanting Reservoir
官厅水库
Guanting Reservoir 官厅水库 is located in Beijing
Guanting Reservoir 官厅水库
Guanting Reservoir
官厅水库
Guanting Reservoir 官厅水库 is located in China
Guanting Reservoir 官厅水库
Guanting Reservoir
官厅水库
Locationat the junction of Beijing and Hebei Province
Coordinates40°23′N 115°48′E / 40.383°N 115.800°E / 40.383; 115.800
Typereservoir
Basin countriesChina
Built13 May 1954

Guanting Reservoir (Chinese: 官厅水库[1]), also known as Guanting Shuiku,[2] is the first large-scale reservoir[3] after the founding of the People's Republic of China.[4]

Guanting Reservoir is located at the junction of Beijing and Hebei Province,[5] mostly in Huailai County, Hebei Province, and a small part in Yanqing County, Beijing.[6] The reservoir is named after the dam built near the Guanting Town (官厅镇).

  1. ^ Chinese Encyclopedia, Volume 49. Encyclopedia of China Publishing House. 1980.
  2. ^ Encyclopedia of National History of the People's Republic of China. Encyclopedia of China Publishing House. 1999. pp. 128–. ISBN 978-7-5000-6218-9.
  3. ^ "The Guanting Reservoir, the First Large-scale Reservoir since the Founding of the People's Republic of China, is Ready for Operation on May 13, 1954". State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission. 13 May 2020.
  4. ^ Bryan Tilt (2 December 2014). Dams and Development in China: The Moral Economy of Water and Power. Columbia University Press. pp. 40–. ISBN 978-0-231-53826-8.
  5. ^ Meng, Jing; Zhou, Yunqiao; Liu, Sifan; Chen, Shuqin; Wang, Tieyu (14 December 2019). "Increasing perfluoroalkyl substances and ecological process from the Yongding Watershed to the Guanting Reservoir in the Olympic host cities, China". Environment International. 133 (Pt B): 105224. doi:10.1016/j.envint.2019.105224. PMID 31665680. S2CID 204965946.
  6. ^ "The water in the Guanting Reservoir is clearer". People's Daily. 19 June 2020.[permanent dead link]