I don't know if you remember, environmental Protection Online just analyzed digital twinning in April, and previously encouraged the development of digital twinning watershed. This month, "Digital Twin Yellow River Basin Construction Plan (2022-2025)" was first released, followed by May 18-19, the Ministry of Water Resources also organized a video conference on digital twin river basin construction pilot implementation plan and other relevant pilot work, actively promoting digital twin river basin management pilot work. The digital twin immediately enters the "acceleration belt" of development.
In late May, China's first digital twin engineering system, the Yuecheng Reservoir, entered the trial operation stage, and the system is also one of the first 11 major digital twin projects piloted by the Ministry of Water Resources. At present, exploring the development of digital twin technology from the direction of watershed governance has taken an important step from scratch.
So what are the advantages of watershed governance using digital twinning?
It is undeniable that watershed governance has always been a difficult problem of environmental governance. The large scale of watershed, different from "point source pollution", often requires collaborative governance mode across administrative divisions. More clearly, cross-regional coordinated governance is more difficult, more capital is invested in governance, operation and maintenance management and other aspects have varying degrees of obstruction. Therefore, watershed management itself is in urgent need of an integrated technical means to strengthen watershed management.
Back to the digital twin technology, it has the function of digitizing various information of the basin, reflecting the situation of the basin on the digital platform, and helping the basin governance by means of digital technology. Higher integration, faster response, and more conducive to cross-regional collaborative governance and management.
Therefore, on the basis of intelligent promotion, the watershed management work with the addition of digital twin technology can better optimize the overall management and collaborative management, and form a new comprehensive watershed management scheme.
How will digital twin + watershed governance develop in the coming years?
Based on the current information, it is clear that digital twin plus watershed management will be carried out first in the Yangtze and Yellow River basins and gradually extended to other basins.
Yellow River Basin: According to the "Digital Twin Yellow River Basin Construction Plan (2022-2025)", during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the Yellow River Basin will build a technical standard system and a "2+N" intelligent business application system. To improve the level of digitalization, networking and intelligence in key areas of watershed water conservancy; Access to xiaolangdi, Wanjiazhai and other important reservoirs digital twin project construction achievements.
Yangtze River Basin: Previously, the Yangtze River Commission studied and deployed the key tasks of the 2022 River Basin water conservancy Planning plan, made it clear that it would accelerate the construction of smart water conservancy and actively promote the pilot construction of digital twin Yangtze River. Authorities this year from several aspects to do a good job of the Yangtze river basin digital twin construction: (1) will have been launched in 2021 the number of twin Yangtze river pilot project in advance the wisdom of the Yangtze river in the construction of key projects, (2) positive follow up digital twin in the early period of the three gorges project construction work, with digital twin twin of the Yangtze river three gorges project construction power digital construction, etc. On May 16, the Yangtze River Committee also organized an internal review meeting on the "Digital twin Construction Plan of the Yangtze River", which shows that the digital twin construction of the Yangtze River basin has made great progress.
In general, the construction of digital twin watershed has started well, and watershed management will find a new scheme under the promotion of digital twin technology!