Advances in Urban Water Systems Research / UK China Link

英国埃克塞特大学水系统中心的资深研究人员提议访问中国的4个顶级研究小组，就如何改善我们（英国和中国）的城市水系统交换意见。中国水务行业面临的一个关键挑战是，尽管有政治意愿和大量训练有素的工程师，但缺乏持续高标准的研究产出来提供必要的指导。在这方面，英国可以提供很多潜在的帮助，但首先必须牢固地建立对彼此需求的某种形式的共同理解。作为回报，中国水市场为英国研究界提供了巨大的机会，可以通过实际实施来扩展他们的研究成果。它还允许对各种计划进行监督和改进，从而提高英国的研究质量。EPSRC INTERACT计划是一个很好的机制，使我们水系统中心能够对我们的研究成果进行大规模测试，并对其进行改进。这一建议非常及时，重点是建立强大的英中学术合作伙伴关系。它建立在水系统中心的优势（作为英国领先研究的展示）和中国快速扩张的城市基础设施的研究需求之上。

A group of established researchers from Centre for Water Systems, University of Exeter, would like to propose visiting 4 top research groups in China to exchange ideas on how to improve our (UK and China) urban water systems.A key challenge in the Chinese water industry is the lack of consistently high standard of research output to provide the necessary guidance, despite the political will power and large base of well-trained engineers. In this respect, there is a lot that the UK can potentially offer, but some form of common understanding of each other's needs must be first and foremost firmly established. In return, the Chinese water market offers UK research community tremendous opportunity to extend their research findings via practical implementation. It also allows various schemes to be monitored and refined, hence enhancing the quality of UK's research. The EPSRC INTERACT scheme is an excellent mechanism to enable us, the Centre for Water Systems, to perform large scale testing of our research outputs as well as refining them.This proposal is very timely and focuses on forming strong UK-China academic partnership. It builds on the strength of the Centre for Water Systems (as a showcase of leading UK research) and research needs of China's rapidly expanding urban infrastructure.