Next stop, outer space

Backpacker Zhao Xingde never imagined that the last stop on his world trip would be outer space.

The traveler from China's southwest Sichuan province, has been chosen by American commercial flight company Space Expedition Corporation to journey to space. He will be flying from the Earth in a manned spaceship at the end of 2015.

Last April, he read on micro blog platform weibo about an online game. The winners would have the chance to travel to space.