Chang Kwel-sheng, the intrepid [Chinese long-distance hiker, has just returned {0 Shanghai after' complet Ing a 20,000-1i trek. through" 11 Jprovinees in. the country, according, the Chinese press. Starling from Shanghai on October' 10, 1984, Chang, has (ramped seress mountains and through valleys and forded rivers in the provinces of Kiangsu, Shantung, Hopel, Shansi, Shensi, He Hupeh, Szechuen, Kiang:
He said he wore out 18 pairs of hiking: shoes" during the journey and spent $300 on the entire trip. Inter viewed upon his arrival in Shanghai, Chang admitted that it was a "tough job" to. walla around the country alone, but he said he had gained more' knowledge by travelling 10,000 than in. reading' 10,000 books. sold that he had met. many' government offals, including General Feng Vu-hsiang," Vice-Chairman of the Military Affairs Commission, who iwas then residing in his retreat on Taishan, sacred mountain of Shantung province. "Chang also mot Marshal Wu Pol-fu, General Sung Cheh-yuan and General Yen List-shan, fall of whom autographed his book for him.
,, He wore a boy scout's uniform during chis whole trip but was not Permitted to enter the Japanese Concession in Tientsin before changing into civilian clothes, he said,
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