The 2024 Baiheliang Tourism and Culture Festival in Fuling district, southwest China's Chongqing municipality, has seen a flood of visitors to Chongqing head for the Baiheliang Underwater Museum, described by UNESCO as "a fabulous first-world-wide example of the presentation of underwater cultural heritage in a site reachable by the non-diving visitor." However, Baiheliang once faced permanently sinking to the bottom of the Yangtze River because of the operation of the Three Gorges Dam. Saving the precious cultural relics was an ingenious exercise, made possible by the application of state-of-the-art design and cutting-edge technology.