Three Gorges Project's first trial navigation achieves success



A ship successfully passes through the permanent ship lock of the gigantic Three Gorges water control project when a trial navigation through the ship lock was conducted June 13. The ship lock will be put into operation on June 16. (Xinhua Photo)
Two tourists watch a ship sailing through the permanent ship lock of the Three Gorges Project on the Yangtze River in central China's Hubei Province during a trial navigation of the ship lock June 13. (Xinhua photo)	A journalist from Xinhua News Agency interviews Song Weibang (L), general engineer of the permanent ship lock, on a ship sailing through the lock of the Three Gorges during a trial navigation June 13. (Xinhua photo)