Chinese students get their skates on ... all the way to Beijing
Pair travel over 500km on journey from college to capital
Two college students spent more than five days skating over 500km from their university in Shandong province to Beijing.
The unnamed pair, who were both third-year students majoring in art at Jining University, started their journey on October 1, China’s National Day, Beijing Youth Daily reported.
They arrived in the capital on October 6, winning applause from some social media users for their determination.
Their stunt captured the public imagination after their university posted some of the pictures they took during the journey on Weibo, the country’s most popular social media network.
One of the duo said they had both been in-line skating enthusiasts at school and wanted to take advantage of the “Golden Week” holiday to go sightseeing in the capital, which neither of them had visited before.
They carried only simple equipment, clothing and food with them on their 567km journey and followed a route calculated by a cycling app.