Where ships sail through the sky

Construction of the station began in 2011. Using the completed navigation facilities, materials from central Guizhou can be shipped directly from Wujiang, Zunyi, to Fuling, Chongqing, and then to the Yangtze River.

Engineers had some tough going. In addition to maintaining the electrical power supply.

But Yuan Xiaobin and his colleagues have an even more daunting task — to build another 500-ton ship passage beside the hydropower station.