Inspired by the China Inspiration Locke Line! China’s top-class, lifelong hiking route!

In March, 1928, American explorer Joseph Charles Francis Rock, with the help of King Muli, set foot on a road through the mysterious mountain and went deep into the local place called Gongga Risong Gongbu, which is now the Aden area of Daocheng.

Locke was impressed by the magnificent scenery here, and then published relevant articles and photos taken along the way in National Geographic magazine, which caused a great sensation in the west and showed this "pure land on the blue planet" to the world for the first time. At the beginning, the expedition team crossed the route from Muli to Gongga Ridge, which was later called "Locke Line".

The "Locke Line" has made countless adventure enthusiasts flock to it. Nearly a century later, Richard, an international student from France, led by the local explorer Lao Yin, re-took this world-class hiking route on the plateau and started an adventure through time and space to find the true meaning of Shangri-La.

Inspiration for China is an international communication video column created by Sichuan Daily Newspaper Group. The column is located in the "Z generation" group at home and abroad, and it explores, discovers, excavates and disseminates China business cards such as ancient Shu culture, tourism geography, Sichuan cuisine, animation online games, traditional Chinese medicine, modern art and sci-fi legends.