engineering

Guanting Reservoir

Guanting Reservoir is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Guanting Reservoir rather than just read about it. In short: Guanting Reservoir (Chinese: 官厅水库), also known as Guanting Shuiku, is the first large-scale reservoir after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Guanting Reservoir is located at the junction of Beijing and Hebei Province, mostly in Huailai County, Hebei Province, and a small part in Yanqing County, Beijing.

Key takeaways

Guanting Reservoir belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Guanting Reservoir to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Guanting Reservoir from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Guanting Reservoir (Chinese: 官厅水库), also known as Guanting Shuiku, is the first large-scale reservoir after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Guanting Reservoir is located at the junction of Beijing and Hebei Province, mostly in Huailai County, Hebei Province, and a small part in Yanqing County, Beijing. The reservoir is named after the dam built near the Guanting Town (官厅镇).

History Guanting Reservoir started construction in October 1951 and was completed on 13 May 1954, with the main flow of water being the Yongding River in Huailai. The reservoir covers an area of 230 square kilometers and has a total storage capacity of 2.2 billion cubic meters. Guanting Reservoir was a major source of fresh water for Beijing and neighboring regions. Due to water contamination, the reservoir was withdrawn from the system to supply Beijing with drinking water in 1997, but after thorough treatment, the reservoir has been an alternate water source since 2007.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Guanting Reservoir

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Guanting Reservoir claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Guanting Reservoir before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Guanting Reservoir ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Guanting Reservoir

In research: Guanting Reservoir appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Guanting Reservoir in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Guanting Reservoir is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1954 establishments in China, Buildings and structures in Beijing, Buildings and structures in Hebei, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Guanting Reservoir outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Guanting Reservoir in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Guanting Reservoir means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Guanting Reservoir out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Guanting Reservoir in simple terms?

Why does Guanting Reservoir matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Guanting Reservoir?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Guanting Reservoir.