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Photo: A former truck driver on the Sichuan-Tibet Highway, Li Zongtao, 47, began a hiking tour around China in March 2009, setting out from the southwestern city of Chengdu. During the tour, he made a living by selling bottles he colleted along the way. He has walked across 26 provinces, trekking over 20,000 kilometers.

Buzzword: "ROM brain" refers to a person who refuses to accept input and ideas from other people. It may also be someone who spews ideas and opinions but can't seem to accept input from the outside world. This idea stems from the computer term ROM (commonly known as read-only memory), a storage media where data cannot be modified, at least not very quickly or easily.