Aerial photo taken on Jan.1, 2024shows vessels passing through the five-tier ship locks of the Three Gorges Dam in Yichang, central China's Hubei Province.The shipping throughput via the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydropower project on the upper stream of the Yangtze River, reached a record high of 174 million tonnes in 2023, up 8.77 percent year on year. (Photo: pic.hubeidaily.net/ Zheng Jiayu)