Chinese man to swim 750 miles down Yangtze River to see Shanghai World Expo!

London, July 9 (ANI): A Chinese man has started on his feat of swimming 750-mile down the polluted Yangtze River from his home in Wuhan to visit the World Expo in Shanghai.

According to the Xinmin Evening News, Bao Zhengbing, 56, who works for China Telecom, said it has been his childhood dream to swim from his home in central China to Shanghai.

"Now at last, I'll swim all the way to Shanghai, to fulfil my own dream and to see the World Expo," the Telegraph quoted him as telling the Shanghai Daily before starting his journey.

"When I was 12, I travelled to Shanghai by ship. The beautiful landscapes along the way impressed me so much that I wished one day I could swim along the route and stop wherever I chose," he said.

However, he may find that China's longest river has changed since he was a boy, with environmentalists labelling it as being "cancerous".ao acknowledged that the adventure was dangerous and signed a statement saying he took full personal responsibility for anything that happened to him before beginning his swim.

Friends travelling in a boat and by car will follow him during his 35-day journey, during which he plans to swim 25 miles a day, reports said. (ANI)