✔ Tuanchenghu Regulating Reservoir 

The Tuanchenghu Regulating Reservoir is situated to the south of the Summer Palace in Beijing. It is a key facility for the Beijing section of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, which is the largest water diversion project in the world and designed to alleviate water shortages in Northern China. 

The Digital Twin South-to-North Water Diversion Project utilizes digital twin technology to digitally represent the entire infrastructure, integrating real-time monitoring data for holistic operational visibility. Offering the four preemptive functions (forecasting, early warning, scenario rehearsal, contingency planning), it ensures safe, efficient water supply through intelligent resource allocation, design optimization, and cross-departmental collaboration via shared real-time info. It enhances public participation and regulatory oversight, setting a standard for modern water project management in China.

✔ Forbidden City 

The Palace Museum, formerly known as the Forbidden City, is the largest and best-preserved wooden palace complex globally. As a comprehensive ancient art museum, it showcases the cultural treasures of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, making it China's largest museum of ancient culture and art.

The Forbidden City, located in the center of Beijing is the supreme model in the development of ancient Chinese palaces, providing insight into the social development of late dynastic China, especially the ritual and court culture. The layout and spatial arrangement inherits and embodies the traditional characteristic of urban planning and palace construction in ancient China, featuring a central axis, symmetrical design and layout of outer court at the front and inner court at the rear and the inclusion of additional landscaped courtyards deriving from the Yuan city layout. As the exemplar of ancient architectural hierarchy, construction techniques and architectural art, it influenced official buildings of the subsequent Qing dynasty over a span of 300 years.

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🕐 Itinerary: Beijing local trip, 1 day

▶ May. 30 2024 Morning    Visit Tuanchenghu Regulating Reservoir and Digital Twin South-to-North Water Diversion Project 

▶ May. 30 2024 Afternoon  Visit the World Cultural Heritage site——Forbidden City 

▶ May. 30 2024 Evening     End of the trip 

📍 Tips： 

▶ The tour is exclusively accessible to registered conference attendees who have made full payment for their registration.

▶ The online sign-up deadline is April 30, 2024. 

▶ Minimum sign-up is 15 participants. If not met, the route will be cancelled

▶ Maximum sign-up is 40 participants, on a first-come-first-serve basis.

The secretariat of HIC 2024 reserves the right to change and/or modify the details of the technical trips and notifications will be sent in due course. Stay tuned!

✔ Xiaolangdi Dam and Digital Application

Located about 40 km to the north of Luoyang City in Central China’s Henan Province, Xiaolangdi Dam (dam top elevation 281 m, reservoir storage capacity 12.65 billion m³) on the Yellow River has six 300 MW turbines with a total installed capacity of 1,800 MW. A pioneering application and flagship pilot of digital twin technology in water infrastructure in China, Digital Twin Xiaolangdi integrates advanced data processing and simulation for enhanced efficiency, safety, and environmental management. The Digital Application processes multi-source data for real-time monitoring, analysis, and decision-making. It enables four preemptive functions (forecasting, early warning, scenario rehearsal, contingency planning) for enhanced flood control and dam safety. Advanced algorithms provide insights for resource management and disaster response.

✔ Longmen Grottoes

The Longmen Grottoes, located on both sides of the Yi River to the south of the ancient capital of Luoyang, Henan province, comprise more than 2,300 caves and niches carved into the steep limestone cliffs over a 1km long stretch. These contain almost 110,000 Buddhist stone statues, more than 60 stupas and 2,800 inscriptions carved on steles. The grottoes and niches of Longmen contain the largest and most impressive collection of Chinese art of the late Northern Wei and Tang Dynasties (316-907). The two sculptural art styles, the earlier “Central China Style” and the later “Great Tang Style” had great influence within the country and throughout the world, and have made important contributions to the development of the sculptural arts in other Asian countries. 

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🕐 Itinerary: Beijing-Luoyang round trip, 2 days

▶ May. 30 2024 Morning       Take high-speed train from Beijing to Luoyang 

▶ May. 30 2024 Afternoon     Visit the World Cultural Heritage site——Longmen Grottoes 

▶ May. 30 2024 Evening       Dining and hotel check in in downtown Luoyang 

▶ May. 31 2024 Morning       Visit the Xiaolangdi Dam and Digital Application 

▶ May. 31 2024 Afternoon    Take high-speed train from Luoyang to Beijing 

▶ May. 31 2024 Evening       End of the trip

📍 Tips： 

▶ The tour is exclusively accessible to registered conference attendees who have made full payment for their registration.

▶ The online sign-up deadline is April 30, 2024. 

▶ Minimum sign-up is 10 participants. If not met, the route will be cancelled

▶ Maximum sign-up is 30 participants, on a first-come-first-serve basis.

The secretariat of HIC 2024 reserves the right to change and/or modify the details of the technical trips and notifications will be sent in due course. Stay tuned!