A father in Shanghai made a bold decision to sell his house and shares of the company he founded to take his daughter around the world.
「If I don’t keep her company now, I will lose the chance after she grows up,」 Zhu Chunxiao said, which is why he decided to spend five years going to different places around the globe with his two-year-old daughter.
Zhu kicked off the plan this past August. The first journey was a stretch of more than 9,000 kilometers from south China’s Shenzhen to northeast China’s Jilin Province.
Zhu drove his trailer along the coastline, and would stop by cities along the route to allow the girl to experience the places』 different customs. They didn’t arrive in Jilin until the end of September.
On October 1, Zhu embarked on his second journey again from Shenzhen, via cities including south China's Guangzhou and Guilin, to central China’s Changsha, and then towards southwest China’s Chongqing and Kunming. They hope to turn around towards south China’s Hainan Island.
Zhu said he made friends with strangers they met, and kept seeking business opportunities during the journey. But he said the more important part was wanting his child to feel the world intuitively.
Zhu planned to spend the first year travelling domestically, and the next four years abroad. 「We shall look for joy and happiness on this life journey,」 he wrote to his daughter.