Who are the most awesome explorers in China?

Pan Deming: China’s cycling globetrotter. In the spring of 1930, he learned from the newspaper that eight young people organized the "China Youth Asia Walking Group" and went to Hangzhou in June to catch up with the walking group. Passing through Hangzhou, Guangzhou, and Haikou, we entered Haiphong City in Vietnam. Our fellow travelers either couldn't bear the pain or were sick, so they went back home one after another. When he arrived in Thanh Hoa, he was the only one left. Pan Deming decided to go alone and simply leave Asia. On New Year's Day of the following year, he resumed his journey, switching from walking to riding a bicycle. He traveled around the world from Southeast Asia to the South Asian subcontinent in April 1931. He entered Egypt in Africa via the Middle East, crossed north to the Mediterranean to the Balkan Peninsula, passed through Italy through Central Europe, and then crossed Nordic Scandinavia to England. He crossed the Atlantic via the United Kingdom, arrived in the United States in January 1934, then passed through Latin America, took a boat from Panama, crossed the Pacific to New Zealand and Australia in Oceania, and then arrived in Indonesia and Thailand in Asia. In June 1937, he returned to his motherland, Yunnan, from Myanmar. It lasted seven years and traveled tens of thousands of kilometers, passing through more than 40 countries and regions in five continents: Asia, Africa, Europe, the United States, and Australia. Everywhere we visited, we had inspection records, collected information, and solicited information from nearly 1,200 groups and individuals. The signatures and inscriptions in several languages ??were received by 29 heads of state, heads of government, ministers and famous figures. He also visited the great Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi and later Prime Minister Nehru, and the supreme ruler of the Persian Empire, Reza Khan. General Kemal "Father of Turkey", King of Bulgaria, President and Prime Minister of France, British Prime Minister McDonald, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia. During this period, in order to investigate and edit the geographical conditions of the Tibetan Plateau in the future, I visited the United States for 2 months. I was interviewed and rewarded by President Roosevelt (who was also the chairman of the World Explorers Association at the time) for the second time in the United States. The day after he returned to Nanjing, the "July 7th Incident" broke out. Since then, this feat has never been mentioned again. Pan Deming later settled in Shanghai and worked for the United Nations Relief and Relief Administration. After 1949, he was unemployed and supported his family by ironing clothes and painting palace lanterns. After liberation, he worked in Kunming Yixing Automobile Materials Co., Ltd. On October 18, 1976, he was overjoyed when he heard that the "Gang of Four" had fallen. He died of a sudden myocardial infarction after drinking a few too many glasses of wine.

Peng Jiamu: He has conducted scientific expeditions to Xinjiang 15 times, and entered Lop Nur in Bayingoleng three times for exploration. In May 1980, he led a comprehensive expedition team to Lop Nur, Xinjiang for inspection. On June 17, he went to the desert alone to look for water and unfortunately disappeared. He sacrificed his precious life for the development of my country's scientific cause. The Shanghai Municipal People's Government awarded him the title of "Revolutionary Martyr". He graduated from the College of Agriculture of Nanjing Central University in 1947 and served successively as a teaching assistant in the Soil Department of Peking University College of Agriculture, an assistant and an assistant researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a researcher at the Shanghai Institute of Chemistry, and the vice president of the Xinjiang Academy of Sciences.

Yang Liankang: The first self-funded expedition in Chinese history, an expert on the entire landform development history of the Yellow River and Yangtze River on foot, and a researcher at the Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources. From 1981 to 1982, he spent 360 days on foot to inspect the Yellow River from its source, covering a journey of more than 5,500 kilometers, passing through 108 counties in 7 provinces and 2 autonomous regions, and collected a large amount of first-hand information about the Yellow River. Then he spent 750 days non-stop on foot to inspect along the Yangtze River, making contributions to China's geological cause.

Luo Kaifu: The first person after the Red Army’s Long March to completely follow the route of the Central Red Army’s Long March for 368 days. He wrote a report for the Economic Daily and kept a diary every day, and was guided by more than 2,800 guides along the way. , accompanied by more than 240 doctors signed witness, walked the original route and the entire Long March of the Central Red Army, and climbed over the five major snow mountains. After falling into a snow pit on Jiajin Mountain and being rescued by the People's Liberation Army, he still completed the economic measurement of the altitude of the snow mountain pass that the Red Army passed through. Daily reporter. His reports and diaries were compiled into the book "Tracking the Red Army's Long March" inscribed by the founding general Zhang Aiping, which has been listed as a must-read in teaching interview practice by Tsinghua University.

Yao Maoshu: The first Chinese to raft the Yangtze River. On July 24, 1985, after drifting for 1,270 kilometers, she ran aground on the Jinsha River and was killed. During his lifetime, he was a photographer in the electronic classroom of Southwest Jiaotong University. His action opened the first page of Yangtze River rafting and set off a craze for Yangtze River rafting. It also aroused the awareness of environmental awareness among contemporary Chinese people. In the second year after his departure, the Chinese completed the entire Yangtze River rafting. On April 21, 1986, the Yangtze River Scientific Survey and Rafting Expedition was established in Chengdu, and the full rafting began in mid-June. Three months later, they finally arrived at Wusongkou, but team members Kong Min, Wang Jianjun, Wang Zhen, Yang Qianming and reporter Wan Ming sacrificed their lives for this.

Liu Yutian: The first person in China to walk alone across the Great Wall. January to March 1985. Hike across the Loess Plateau to complete your "Holy Land Journey". From March to September of the same year, I walked through the domestic section of the Silk Road. In September 1985, I walked through the "Death Zone" and defeated the mysterious Lop Nur. November 1986 to January 1987. Crossing the "yellow line of death" - the Gurbantunggut Desert in the Junggar Basin. October 1987 to January 1989. Hiking across the "Sea of ??Death" - the Taklimakan Desert three times. July to September 1989. We visited Xinjiang’s Swan Lake and Yourdus Grassland twice, inspected the Konaisi Valley, and crossed the Ice Dashan of the Tianshan Mountains. From September to October of the same year. Visit the Ordos Plateau and Daqing Mountains in Inner Mongolia. April to June 1990.

Inspection of the primeval forest in Shennongjia, Hubei Province. From June to July 1991, he jointly climbed the Gradandong Snow Mountain at the source of the Yangtze River and Yellow River with the Tsinghua University mountaineering team, but was unsuccessful. He also climbed the Yuxu Peak of Kunlun Mountain, which is 6,267 meters above sea level, alone. May to September 1992. Visit Xinjiang Altai Kalamaili Mountain Wildlife Reserve, Jiangjun Gobi, Wucai Bay, primitive Populus euphratica forest, and Devil City. He took more than 10,000 black and white color photos with his own hands and wrote more than 2 million words of adventure diary, covering various fields. Several works have been published one after another, and he has won many national awards. Some of them are also used as patriots. The teaching materials are selected into junior high school textbooks.

Chen Jing: Old Red Army member of the Sixth Red Army. Engaged in music, dance, and drama work in the Red Army's "Combat Drama Club", "Workers' and Peasants' Drama Troupe", and "People's Drama Club". In the Eighth Route Army, he served as instructor, instructor, art troupe leader, photography section chief, publicity section chief, regiment director, and political commissar. During the War of Liberation, he served as director of the political department of the artillery division and brigade, and director of the political department of the special forces. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as director of the political department in the Air Defense Force, Air Force School and the army, and was engaged in scientific research and historical writing. His works include the novel and movie script "By the Jinsha River", the movie "The Atomic Age", the novel "The Red Army Is Not Afraid of Difficulties in the Expedition", the documentary "He Long's Life Story", the essay "The Little Red Army on Horseback", etc. After retirement, from September 1986 to 1988, at the age of 70, he became China's first self-driving tourist (with the help of his children) and walked the five Long March routes of the Red Army's three legions and two independent regiments from beginning to end. On one trip, it passed through more than 400 counties and cities in 17 provinces and autonomous regions, climbed over 8 snow-capped mountains, walked over 100 kilometers of grassland, interviewed and photographed along the way, collected information on the history and current situation of the old revolutionary base areas, and was invited to participate in more than 400 symposiums and give reports. He wrote 74 "Essays on Returning to the Long March", more than 200 poems, took more than 1,000 photos, and collected leaves from each destination to make more than 300 beautifully composed leaf paintings. He has created the million-word Long March series "Re-walking the Long March - Letters and Letters", "Re-walking the Long March - Collection of Leaves", "Record of Roots" and "History of Poetry", etc.

Zou Yulin: China’s first freelance writer, photographer, and columnist to travel on foot to visit historical sites of China’s revolution at his own expense. Starting from Nanchang, Jiangxi Province on August 1, 1987, it lasted 2 years and 2 months, passing through 368 counties and cities, more than 1,000 villages and towns in 22 provinces (autonomous regions) in China, covering a distance of 25,000 kilometers, and photographing more than 1,000 revolutionary historical sites. Take photos and write down a diary of more than 1 million words. CCTV reported: A generous gift was given to the 40th anniversary of the founding of the great Communist Party of China.

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