Feature: The Chinese couple heading for the super, white yonder

by Xinhua writer Hu Tao

BEIJING, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- Thirty years ago, a chubby Chinese boy promised to take his sweetheart to the South Pole. It was the girl's dream to see the "world's most remote place."

Zhang Xinyu was ten and Liang Hong was eight when they decided "to play together for a lifetime."

Almost a lifetime later, and Zhang and Liang have announced to the world that they are taking a little a trip to the bottom of the earth: the South Pole.

"We are simple people with great pride in our nation. The South Pole is our Chinese dream, and we are going to make it come true in a Y-12 plane that was made by China," Zhang told Xinhua.

Zhang said that the couple was always on the road, travelling to some of the world's most remote and inhospitable places for more than ten years.

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