On July 8, 2023, GAO Jianwen, Deputy Director-General of the Haihe River Water Conservancy Commission led a delegation to visit NHRI. DUAN Hong, Secretary of NHRI Party Committee, ZHU Ming, Secretary of NHRI Committee for Discipline Inspection, and heads and technical backbones of Hydraulic Engineering Department, Research Center for Big Data and Intelligent Water Management, and Nanjing R&D Water Information Technology Co., Ltd. of NHRI participated in the discussion.

DUAN extended a warm welcome to the Deputy Director-General and his delegation, reviewed the research work carried out by HNRI over the years in the fields of flood control and disaster mitigation, water resources security, hydro- environment management, and groundwater management in the Haihe River Basin, and introduced the overall progress of digital twin water conservancy construction in discipline layout, talent training and industry support at NHRI. NHRI will focus on the research and development of sensing equipment for digital twin water conservancy construction, and the construction and business application of general professional models, to better serve and support the high-quality development of water industry.

GAO thanked NHRI for its long-term support for the water security of the Haihe River Basin, introduced the planning and vision of the construction of digital twin river basin of the Haihe River Water Conservancy Commission, and proposed ideas on how to closely combine digital twin water conservancy construction with the specific businesses of water industry, which is the key to the implementation of the intelligent water conservancy construction according to the requirement of "Being demand-driven, application-orientated, digitalization-empowered and capability-enhanced", and expressed the hope to take this opportunity to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with NHRI on digital twin water conservancy construction.

Other participants from both sides had an in-depth discussion on further strengthening cooperation.