3,000-km cycling trip gives students life lessons

After cycling 3,000 kilometers in 30 days, Lan Huiyun and his 32 students finally reached their destination — Hainan province — and finished their ride around Hainan Island on July 9.

Lan, 38, a geography teacher from No 1 Middle School in the Shuocheng district of Shuozhou, Shanxi province, started out with his students on June 10, several days after they finished the gaokao, the national college entrance examination.

They set off from their campus and passed through the provinces of Henan, Hubei, Hunan and Guangdong before arriving at Haikou, capital of Hainan.