Some 10,000 Chinese sturgeons, weighing more than 10,000 kilograms in total, left their familiar captive breeding environment and jumped into the Yangtze River on Saturday morning. They will swim from Yichang, Central China’s Hubei Province to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, eventually entering the ocean and returning to the Yangtze again to spawn after ten years. This was the 64th release of Chinese sturgeons carried out by the Three Gorges Corp since 1984. It is also the first release since Hubei recovered from the COVID-19 epidemic. Pakistani Ambassador to China Moin ul Haque, the medical team from Yichang to assist Pakistan in the prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic, and Yichang local students participated in the release.