Li Chongming was born in Hongtian Village, Guiyang Township, Dehua County, Fujian Province. Since 1989, he has traveled to China four times by bicycle.
On December 28, 1989, I bought a bicycle in Chongqing and returned to Fujian via Chongqing, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, and Guangdong. It took two months and covered more than 3,800 kilometers.
On April 25, 1993, I started cycling from my hometown Dehua, passing through Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Shaanxi, Henan, Anhui, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Shandong, Hebei, Tianjin, Beijing, Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang. It lasted more than a year and covered more than 40,000 kilometers.
On April 27, 1994, I set off from my hometown and rode to Fuzhou and then turned back to Quanzhou. While I was sleeping in an old roadside house in Tuling, Quangang District, Quanzhou, my bicycle, all my luggage and 5,000 yuan in cash were stolen, and I returned without success.
On March 27, 2001, I started from Dehua again and cycled through Fujian, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Shandong, Hebei, Tianjin, Beijing, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Henan, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Chongqing, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu, Xinjiang, Tibet, Qinghai, Tibet, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hainan, and Guangdong and returned. Bicycle tracks cover 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions except Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. It passed through 1,236 counties and ended on February 2, 2006, with a time span of 5 years and a distance of 62,355 kilometers.
Life on a bicycle----Seventeen years of riding the Chinese dream