Tug of love: meet the man pulling his girlfriend across China in a rickshaw in the hope she will marry him
Marriage may be on the cards … if the couple manage to complete their 2,000km trek and reach the sea
A man is pulling his girlfriend across China in a rickshaw to convince her to marry him, according to a local paper.
The couple are from landlocked and mountainous Gansu province, in northwest China, which is home to part of the Gobi desert, but the girlfriend had set her heart on seeing the sea.
Over a month ago the couple set off with their rickshaw to walk over two thousand kilometres (1,200 miles) to the sea in Weihai, eastern Shandong province.
The man, surnamed Wang, and his girlfriend have already been walking for 41 days.
On Friday they had reached Zhengzhou city in the central province of Henan – still a thousand kilometres from their destination having travelled through Shaanxi province which borders Gansu, local Zhengzhou paper the Dahe Daily reported.