A great many of cargo ships anchor at a ship lock in Chaohu, east China's Anhui Province November 19 due to declining water level of the Yangtze River triggered by drought along the river this year.

Cargo ships take turns to get through a ship lock in Chaohu, east China's Anhui Province November 19. More than 600 ships crowd at the ship lock and some of them has waited to get through for ten days.

(Xinhua News Agency November 20, 2006)